#A Living Remedy

[wellconstructedsentences]

Before my mother leaves the house, she turns on the television — always PBS — in the hopes that [her dog] will find the voices comforting and feel less lonely. (“Why PBS?” I asked her. “Well, I figure it's at least semi-educational.”)

A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung

[goawaywithjae]

Q: When people hear that you’re an adoptee, do many of them assume you were born in South Korea? A: So many, yes. The second line in my first book, “All You Can Ever Know,” states that my birth parents moved here from Korea before I was born. I share this information in “A Living Remedy” and many essays and interviews as well. And yet many articles and actual book reviews have claimed that I was born in Korea. I try to correct the record every time – not out of any defensiveness, but because being a U.S.-born adoptee means that the laws governing my adoption, the options available to me for search and reunion with my birth family, etcetera are different. There is a great deal of overlap between my experience and that of Korean-born adoptees, but I have the privilege of not having to worry about proving my U.S. citizenship, for example, whereas too many foreign-born adoptees are actually without proof of their citizenship because their adoptive parents or their adoption agency or both didn’t do what was necessary to finalize and secure documentation of their citizenship. Congress needs to pass the Adoptee Citizenship Act! So I always try to be clear about where I was born and adopted, and make sure people also know that I can’t and don’t want to speak for all Korean adoptees.

[judgingbooksbycovers]

​A Living Remedy: A Memoir

By Nicole Chung.

Design by Vivian Lopez Rowe.

[emsalx]

blueberry fields forever

26 feb 2023 

[reality-detective]

The Sun ☀️

Listen 👇

They are helping you to remain sick so you're paying into their system 🤔

[shittybundaskenyer]

when the writer is in doubt, my turn to come out (scratch out)

[mossflavouredbaby]

The Two Wolves Inside ~ 💞💅

Follow me @mossflavouredbaby on Instagram or @mossflavourbaby on Twitter if you want :))

[ilkkawhat]

You need to do the reaction that you have when we cut to you in live action

[judyalvqrez]

the oceanview motel and casino

[sassytheturtle]

A small little detail that I love that isn't talked about enough is that in AW1 when Alan is yelling and pissed off at Alice, he stops and turns away when the lights flicker because he knows Alice will already be freaked out enough. Even though his temper is rising, he stops and waits for the lights to come back on to continue. You can tell that even when he's mad he still cares about her. And I just love that

[tinyclowndancer]

Playing Control again to buy some time until I'm ready for AWII and the way Remedy, Matt, and Ilkka fried my brain to the point I can't even see a projector anymore without thinking about Zaneling and that scene... well played, well played. Now give us the Director's Cut in the Lake House DLC, please. It's for scientific research.

[velvetjune]

concept thomas zane is surreal to see

[jessica-marie-baumgartner]

[fairymorrigan]

I want a herbalist cabinet, but kept away from the cat, so I’d want one with a lock. But I don’t think I have room in my tiny apartment. :( could really use natural remedies, or things to prevent illness. I’m always sick.