Sometimes, you go somewhere expecting it to be totally different, and it ends up seeming familiar. I had that feeling as I led a group of students on a trip to China—and then again, back home, as we met an expectant mother.
Lisa Emmerich
Lisa Emmerich is a former journalist who currently teaches world cultures to seventh graders in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She and her husband, Conrad, are the parents of three biological daughters and became the parents of a son through domestic adoption in September 2017, after this essay was written.