Lake Calder
Adoptee identity discovery through midlife memoiring feat. music, art and vital sign management.
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| Issues | 18 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 18 days ago |
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Octopus Healing
July 2, 2026 - Mentally, I am in the Great African Seaforest beside the cephalopod subject of the 2020 documentary My Octopus Teacher, as she heals from a shark bite. I’m pretending the filmmakers don’t exist. I understand the ethical issue...
Freeze or Flow
Photo by weston m on Unsplash
The mind scrambling dread of preparing for an ice skating jump in front of a crowd was my least favorite part of figure skating. I spent my childhood slamming my skeleton into frozen water with visions of reac...
Crow Dives and Vital Signs
10/23/2025
My heart’s been beating some jazzy rhythms lately and I had a worrying spell on the way home from an eye appointment yesterday. It could have been a reaction to the cannabis cloud that clings to a particular patch of freeway fro...
Watching Gilmore Girls With my Adoptive Mother
As the pumpkin spice lattes start frothing (is that what they do?), the cozy TBRs pile up and the cable knit sweaters come out, many Autumn enthusiasts are dropping by The Stars Hollow Firelight Festival. For some fans Gilmore Girls is a se...
Flashback: Sci-Fi Sky 2020
Image: J. Healey - Wikimedia Commons
From my journal - September 10, 2020
‘Yesterday’s airborne event of orange-red sky glow wildfire smoke mingling with the marine layer has the song “Red Skies” by The Fixx looping in my mind.’
The 1982...
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Xennial adoptee finding my fins amid breast cancer treatment. Doodles, tunes, murmured thoughts.
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