11 Adoptee Tips for a Successful Adoption Reunion
Adoptee reunion guide: searching for birth parents, managing expectations, setting boundaries, and navigating complex birth family relationships.”
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
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Adoptees & Divorce
Articles about adoption and divorce, exploring how adoption experiences impact relationships and family dynamics.
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 Jerry Knight. I learned one year ago, on this day, that he was alive and very much wanted to meet me. Within a few days I wrote him a letter and took the second step on my adoption journey.
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 […]
