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Adoptee reunion guide: searching for birth parents, managing expectations, setting boundaries, and navigating complex birth family relationships."
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Finding Your Birth Family: An Adoptee's Guide to Adoption Reunion
For many adoptees, the idea adoption reunion feels like a daunting dream. Here’s what I’ve learned from my own reunion with my birth parents.
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.
Adoptee Life & The Outside In
But this time the adult me had embraced the 12-year-old me, still trying to prove she belonged. The same me that once wrapped Daddy's Lincoln around a gas pump, trying to get the c…
What is a Search Angel?
A Search Angel plays a crucial role in adoption search support, helping individuals reunite with birth parents, adoptees, and other relatives. These dedicated individuals form netw…
Let's Talk Memoir Writing: A Sneak Peek at "The Power of Memoir to Heal Your Heart and Claim Your Story."
This year’s virtual conference is titled "Honoring the Past, Treasuring the Present, Shaping the Future." So it seems fitting that I will present a session on memoir writing titled…
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.
Adoptee / Birth Father Speak at Adoption Knowledge Conference, Austin, Texas, 2012
Adoptee and Birth Father speak at this adoption conference about reuniting 41 years after daughter was put up for adoption without fathr's knowledge or consent.
10 Year Adoptee / Birth Father Reunion Anniversary: A Video Tribute
A Memoir About an Adoption that Never Happened.
A memoir about an adoption that never happened. It is a black market baby’s story about the parents who held onto her as tightly as they did her secret, and the mother who let her …
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
NOLA Radio Interview on Meeting My Birth Mother
An interview with WHIV Radio on meeting my birth mother.
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 …
Harm Unintended
Acknowledging My Birth Mother's Angst After Reading My Last Post
Adoption Reunions: Managing Expectations, Assimilating Birth and Adoptive Families
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.