United: The Healing Power of the Adoption Constellation
United: The Healing Power of the Adoption Constellation Community “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” – Coretta Scott King Tweet Never have I thought of myself as a joiner, and rarely do I feel like I fit in. Growing up it was the same, not […]
A Mother’s Day Book Review: GOD AND JETFIRE, by Amy Seek
A BOOK REVIEW HONORING AMY SEEK & ALL BIRTHMOTHERS “I had the impulse to say ‘Happy Mother’s Day’ but my imagination cycled through potential worst-case scenarios… Our motherhoods were like optical illusions where you are going up stairs and down stairs—but it’s impossible for your brain to comprehend both at once. Would this day be […]
Claiming Your Voice Podcast Interview
Sharing My Adoption Journey with Janeice Garrard It was so exciting to do my first podcast interview as a guest on the Claiming Your Voice podcast. Janeice was so kind, set me at ease, and held a safe, supportive place for me to share my story. I talked with her about how I came to […]
Paying It Forward: My Dream to Offer an Adoption Writing Residency in the Vintage Trailer Where I was Conceived
Having Been Gifted the Space to Start My Adoptee Memoir; I Plan to Pay it Forward by Creating an Adoption Writing Residency in the Texas Hill Country The idea for an adoption writing residency came to me after reflecting on the support and assistance I was given to help my dream of writing my memoir […]
Adoptee / Birth Father Speak at Adoption Knowledge Conference, Austin, Texas, 2012
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.
