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 conferences, I had met several first mothers who encouraged me to join them
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 reckoning, a coming to terms with self, a deeper understanding of
SHE’S COMING ALONG Perhaps you have or haven’t heard about this adoptee writing residency passion project of mine. Lately, I have started referring to my origin story as my Tin Can Conception, because I was conceived in a 1952 Spartanette
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 what we know without a
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.
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.
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
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
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
https://youtu.be/UgYh7jM74Y4 Here is my viral reunion video of meeting my birth father which has received more than 287,000 views and which paints a beautiful culmination to what began as a sad loss for this kind-hearted man, who only discovered he
