I remember last year how excited he was to decorate the house for us with his husband Chad when he found out we would be there for Christmas. I remember how excited we were not only to spend Christmas with my brother and his husband …
Read MoreMissing Jason
Although I only had my youngest brother in my life for seven years, I lost him forever yesterday. We were at a Metallica concert in Detroit. Something that I had been looking forward to since June when my husband had told me that he had …
Read MoreGenetic Mirroring
My fellow Ohio adoptee friend posted this on Facebook and it really got me thinking. I look a lot like my adoptive mother and I never really felt any of this when I was growing up. It did not really hit me until I saw …
Read MoreI talked to Jean from Adoption Paradox today
I had a very enlightened Zoom interview for a good hour today with Jean @ https://adoptionparadox.com/. Jean is an adoptee herself who is collecting stories from adoptees, adoptive parents, biological parents, and even biological siblings and half-siblings. She plans on sharing the good, the bad, …
Read MoreAfter I found out Aunt Jill passed away…
I put off writing this for a while. I knew I had to get down though because it is part of my journey to connect with my maternal family. I finally sat down and wrote it tonight. On a weeknight just after my birthday, when …
Read MoreThe judge who presided over my adoption.
While working on my memoir, I found my adoption certificate in my Dropbox. I don’t remember exactly why I scanned it and put it in there, but I decided to pull it up and read the PDF file of it again. I am guessing my …
Read MoreExcerpt from when I didn’t have an on the day you were born story to share at work.
After my podcast interview with Peggy from Adoptees at work, it occurred to me that I didn’t write about something important we talked about in my memoir. I just added it today:While working at Goddard, there was one day when we were setting up my …
Read MoreBucket list of concerts
The Why behind sharing my story
I hadn’t done a podcast in a few years and I happened to notice in the Fireside Adoptees Facebook group that Melissa Brunetti was looking for fellow adoptees to share their stories for her awesome Mind Your Own Karma Podcast. I knew it was time …
Read MoreNot easy to write about. The confession of a former teenage wrist cutter.
This was not easy to write about today. But I felt like I had to get the first draft of it added to my memoir. The boy who bullied me did apologize and I did see him at my class reunion. I forgave him but …
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