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Adoption Blog
- 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...
- 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."
- 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...
- Jun 20, 2022
- 5 min
Adoption Revelations
An adoptive mother's joy may be a birth mother's agony.
- 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.
- Apr 7, 2022
- 3 min
Healing is Essential
As an adoptee and a birth mother, healing has been a journey. Today I recognized the old, unhealed version of myself in my birth mother,...
- Mar 29, 2022
- 4 min
Duality - Adoptee vs Birth Mother
Adoptee Perspective I grew up in a family of other adoptees whom I never spoke with about adoption, then or now. I don't know why;...
- Feb 22, 2022
- 2 min
Welcome to my life
If my life was told in pictures, I came out of the womb sitting up with a dress on. The youngest photo I have of me is professionally...
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