James Shiffer

May 17, 2024 | airmail.news | Sam Wasson |James Shiffer |Cathy Young |Linda Wells

WHERE THERE’S A WILL, THERE’S A RELATIVE APOCALYPSE NOW OR NEVER WRITING ON THE HALLS BURN THE BOATS! DODGY LODGINGS WEDDING PLANNING THE WHITE-GLOVE TREATMENT BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE! Issue No. 253 The View from Here Why Francis Ford Coppola should be cherished for being the last great dreamer in Hollywood The Secret Daughter A battle over the estate of Mario D’Urso—the Italian banker and senator who epitomized the 1970s jet set—gets complicated when a daughter he didn’t know he had enters...

May 17, 2024 | airmail.news | James Shiffer

Among the unknowable number of people who have been adopted as newborns, there are two camps. Those who feel a kinship with their birth families, and those who don’t. Many adoptees are happy to live with zero knowledge of their genetic forebears and birth stories. For others, whose past has been purposefully hidden, the need to know becomes an obsession. They spend huge amounts of time and money searching genealogy Web sites and offering DNA samples to hunt down their heritage.

May 24, 2021 | startribune.com | James Shiffer

May 2, 2021 | tptoriginals.org | James Shiffer

Aug 11, 2020 | startribune.com | Liz Navratil |James Shiffer