It's been a while...
April/May Spring cleaning my shed, I realized that it was a time capsule of moments in my life. Some moments I wasn’t ready to...
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Adoption Blog
- Mar 17
- 1 min
Happy Birthday M! Happy St. Patrick's Day To Everyone Else.
Happy Birthday takes on a new meaning after the reunion.
- Feb 22
- 4 min
It's Been A Year - Rebranded Blog Birthday!
It is a cold, wintry Denver morning. The same as it was on this date a year ago when I started my blog. Yesterday it was 57 degrees, and...
- Feb 8
- 3 min
Express Yourself
My way of coping since I was a child has been writing. I have so many journals, notebooks, and computer files that contain some emotional...
- Jan 9
- 4 min
New Year, New Season!
I made it through the holidays and my birthday unscathed (December Blog), feeling clearer, stronger, and more like me than I have in a...
- Dec 20, 2022
- 3 min
December- Birthday and Holidays
The holidays are not always kind to adoptees. The focus on family can cause feelings of loss to surface and bring up complex emotions around
- Nov 21, 2022
- 5 min
What's Your Attachment Style?
While making a smoothie, my inner voice said, "I am afraid to form attachments to people because everything I love gets taken away." I...
- Nov 5, 2022
- 4 min
I Hate Adoption -/əˈdäpSH(ə)n/
I hate I was born into adoption. I hate I bore a son into adoption. These were the first two statements that came to mind this morning...
- Oct 21, 2022
- 4 min
Adoption Voices on Social Media
If you are an adoptee, birth family, adoptive parent, or prospective adoptive family, I hope you have found adoptee voices to follow on...
- Sep 23, 2022
- 4 min
Rebranded - A Memoir (Excerpt II )
"What makes you think I want you to have my baby."
- Sep 7, 2022
- 2 min
Would You Rather Not Have Been Adopted?
It has been over a month since my last published blog. I wish I could say I was busy working on my memoir or other writing endeavors, but...
- Jul 26, 2022
- 3 min
Reunion Aftermath - Birth Mother Perspective
My reunion with my birth son Michael officially began on Easter Sunday, 2018, three days before my dad's (adoptive) death. That was one...
- Jul 1, 2022
- 3 min
Reunion Aftermath - Adoptee Perspective
I have been lucky enough to find and build a relationship with my birth mother and three half-brothers, who I found in 2016. I was months...
- Jun 2, 2022
- 2 min
Even Happy Moments Conjure Pain
Joy and regret can exist simultaneously, and as a birth mother who has other children, it usually does.
- May 26, 2022
- 3 min
Rebranded - A Memoir (excerpt )
Junk Mail It was official; my birth certificate was a lie. I had waited 16,831 days (46 years) for information that arrived between an...
- May 12, 2022
- 4 min
What's Up with Hostility Towards Adoptee Voices?
I am not sure why there is so much anger directed at adoptees if their narrative does not end in rainbows and Skittles.
- May 3, 2022
- 5 min
Which is better, one or two?
I feel like that eye test plays out in my life. Which is better? One mother, or two; my birth mother or adoptive mother; birth family or ado
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