I'm on a journey to explore my family's history and genealogy. Over the years I've had difficulty finding information but now it seems to come a bit easier. I was withheld a lot of information as I was growing up, but I'm on my way to changing that.

I'm an artist. I used to think that I got all my artist talent from my mom. I'd come home from school to find her jammin' her 80s music and painting at her easel. But I've recently learned that my birth father was an artist and poet. I cried when I read that on his obituary. How could I have known that the other half of me was contributing so much too? I'm 33 years old now and only know what I know about my birth fathers side from newspaper articles I've researched online. I wish to learn more before his remaining family is no longer around. A door was locked from me when I was growing up, whether it was for privacy or protection. I hold no ill will towards those intentions. But I'm ready to learn something, anything about the other half of me that makes me who I am.

I'm on a journey to explore my family's history and genealogy. Over the years I've had difficulty finding information but now it seems to come a bit easier. I was withheld a lot of information as I was growing up, but I'm on my way to changing that.

I'm an artist. I used to think that I got all my artist talent from my mom. I'd come home from school to find her jammin' her 80s music and painting at her easel. But I've recently learned that my birth father was an artist and poet. I cried when I read that on his obituary. How could I have known that the other half of me was contributing so much too? I'm 33 years old now and only know what I know about my birth fathers side from newspaper articles I've researched online. I wish to learn more before his remaining family is no longer around. A door was locked from me when I was growing up, whether it was for privacy or protection. I hold no ill will towards those intentions. But I'm ready to learn something, anything about the other half of me that makes me who I am.