TWICE THE ADOPTION MEMOIR: An Adoptee Twin Doubles Down on Her Adoption Story
TWICE THE ADOPTION MEMOIR: An Adoptee Twin Doubles Down on Her Adoption Story ADOPTION MEMOIR REVIEW by Patricia Knight Meyer “Twice the Family: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Sisterhood” Author Julie Ryan McGue | Available Feb. 4, 2025 | She Writes Press | Memoir / Nonfiction As a small child, I often fantasized […]
Adoptee / Birth Father Speak at Adoption Knowledge Conference, Austin, Texas, 2012
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 […]
Mirror Mirror
How Being an Adoptee and Single Parent Shaped My Parenting Style and Relationship With My Daughter
Fear, Anxiety & The Primal Wound
I wake up this morning and I feel it again, the wave of sickness lapping my gut, a slow tide rising in the depth of my belly, a heat warming my throat, stealing my breath, burning my chest a bright red. This is no serene sunrise, I crave peace and tranquility, but no, my heart […]
Adoption Reunions: Managing Expectations, Assimilating Birth and Adoptive Families
This past weekend was a big weekend. Jerry my birth father finally met my family. In the last seven months since our reunion, he had met his grand daughter Victoria, my husband and step son, a few of my closest girl friends, even Jack, Victoria’s father, but he had yet to meet a single solitary […]
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.
