CUB Retreat 2024: A Transformative Experience for This Adoptee
As an adoptee, I recently had the privilege of attending the CUB (Concerned United Birthparents) Retreat 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. Having attended two Untangling Our Roots con…
Birth Father Relationships
Adoptee Resiliency and My 10-Year Climb Back to Happy
Talk about adoptee resiliency, I see that the spontaneous combustion of my writing cabin, an event that seemingly took everything that day, was truly the catalyst for a new reckoni…
Adoptee Writing Residency Project (AKA Spartan Trailer "Somebody's Baby" Update)
Adoptee renovates 1952 Spartanette trailer where she was conceived to honor birth father and offer a writing residency getaway for adoptees.
The Adoptee Army Uprising at Pokagon State Park
Yet no matter how supported we feel online, it does not compare with being together in flesh and blood. A moment when we join forces to stand up for not just what we believe, but w…
A Tribute to Patricia Long Legs
Patricia Long Legs was born 12 years ago, July 16, 2011, in the pasture facing Camelot Lane, the day I met my birth father Jerry Knight and step mother Susan.
A Father’s Day Post from the West End of Galveston Island
My adoptive father and my birth father, met for the first and only time in Galveston, Texas, at a west-end marina, sometime between 1953 and 1961, a decade or so before I was born.
10 Year Adoptee / Birth Father Reunion Anniversary: A Video Tribute
Marking 10 Years In Reunion
Steadying the feet of my camping chair deeper into the stones, I sink in and press my face to the sun. I take a long sip of a Dos Equis and toast the fact that tomorrow makes a dec…
Seven Years' Time
Meeting My Birth Father: Our Reunion Video
Watch our reunion video, where I meet my birth father for the first time and read an update on how the reunion is going.
Finding My Birth Father
A year ago today, thanks to my birth mother Lina's search for the truth and the man connected to it (and her sharing that information with me), I learned my birth father's name is …