November is Adoption Awarenessss month and I invite you to pop over to Grown in My Heart where Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy has posted some facts about adoption. Did you know that approximately 60% of Americans are either adopted, have adopted children or siblings, or have relinquished a child for adoption? I suspect that if you take…
Author: Adoptee
Truth Heals
Nothing good can come from secrecy and deception. I was adopted over fifty years ago and the closed adoption deception that was common in those days affects me still. Those untouched by adoption may wonder how an experience that happened so long ago, when I was an infant, still affects me today. Sometimes I have wondered that myself….
Dear Betty Jean Lifton
In pulling together what I want to say in my memoir, I have been wading through reams of documents, papers, photographs, and letters over the past couple of years. Recently I came across this letter that I had written (but not mailed) to Betty Jean Lifton after I read Lost and Found twenty-six years ago….
The Unbreakable Child
Recently I had the honor and privilege of compiling a set of discussion questions to be included in the new edition of Kim Richardson’s memoir The Unbreakable Child due out in October of this year. I first read Kim’s story last year and reviewed the first edition for Story Circle Book Reviews; my second reading of her book was no…
Mother's Day
In 1959 Mother’s Day was celebrated on May 10. I was 3 1/2 months old and had been admitted to hospital two days earlier for tests on my kidneys, bladder and stomach due to concerns about celiac disease. I would remain in hospital for almost a month and, two days after my release, I was placed on probationary…