10 Year Adoptee / Birth Father Reunion Anniversary: A Video Tribute
This is a video my daughter and I made in honor of our 10 year reunion with my birth father, who at 69 years old learned he had a daughter and grand daughter in this world. We all shared ten glorious years together, before his passing on Nov. 3, 2021. Though never given the opportunity […]
GUEST POST: Why Is That Controversial? Adoptees have a stake in the fight to protect abortion rights.
Tony Corsetino offers an adoptee’s perspective on abortion right, a hot topic among adoptees: “There is an enormous moral difference, however, between relinquishment and adoption as intervening in a crisis situation for which there is no better alternative, versus instituting a de facto social system in which people are coerced into producing children for transferral into other, unrelated families.”
Our Alternate Universe: A Mother’s Day Letter to My Biological Step-Mother
From the moment we met, I knew you were not just my birth father’s wife, but that you’d somehow always been a mother I’d been missing. Nanny, the day I met you, I did not feel like you were going to become “like a mother to me,” I felt you already were. I immediately felt […]
The Day I Asked to Be Un-Adopted
“Please don’t be sad Mommy, but I figure I should live with Dora. She is not old like you, she has freckles like me, and she can give me a brother. See, I will be right there!” I said pointed through the slatted window panes across the side yard toward my future home. You can watch me play with my brother!” I assured her. “All you have to do is let Dora be my new mommy.”
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 go. It is about one woman’s walk home, a journey back to self, a healing of primal wounds, to claim her truth and correct her identity.
Healing the Child Within, ACE Scores & Please Hear What I Am Not Saying
On page one of Charles L. Whitfield’s “Healing the Child Within,” a book that has sold millions of copies since it was published in 1987, the author writes: “Denial of the Child Within and the subsequent emergence of a false self or negative ego are particularly common among children and adults who grew up in […]
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 decade since I first pulled up the drive at Camelot, ten years since finding my way to a home I’d never laid a foot on, but somehow always knew was out there waiting for my return.
Seven Years’ Time
July 1 – I meet him standing at the top of a short dusty road, turned onto from a long hot highway that had stretched decades behind me. The journey to my paternal birth family had begun at my first breath, a trip that would last 40 odd years. Siri would have told me “I […]
From the Ashes
An excerpt from “Somebody’s Baby” – How tragically ironic that all my worldly possessions, memoirs and keepsakes from my adopted life would burn to ash on the property of my birth parent.
NOLA Radio Interview on Meeting My Birth Mother
An interview with WHIV Radio on meeting my birth mother.
