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 Mother Relationships
A Dozen Shareable Doozies: 12 Gretchen Sisson Quotes on Adoption
12 Gretchen Sisson Quotes from a recent discussion of "RELINGQUISHED: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood."
Dec. 22 & The Not Knowing
The Not Knowing had driven me to ask strangers in the street if they’d ever relinquished a child, to ask my mother if I looked like this girl or that, to weave a magical fantasy th…
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…
Summer Reading: The Adoption Memoirs Inside this Adoptee’s Beach Bag
“Where better to read an adoption memoir than on the beach in front of my childhood home,” I thought, stuffing more books than I knew I’d be able to make time for into my suitcase.…
A Mother's Day Book Review: GOD AND JETFIRE, by Amy Seek
Book review of GOD AND JETFIRE by Amy SEEK, review written by Adoptee Patricia Ann Knight Meyer to honor birth mothers on this difficult day.
In My Birth Mother's Shoes
At 19 years old, I created the same circumstances to put myself squarely in my own birth mother’s shoes. Do I keep my unplanned baby? The moment the plus sign appeared I knew what …
Harm Unintended
Acknowledging My Birth Mother's Angst After Reading My Last Post
Adoption Reunion: Why I Celebrate My Conception Day
Through my adoption reunion, I learned that my conception took place along the banks of the San Bernard River in Brazoria, Texas.