(Because of adoption)You don’t know me but…. you mean so much to me.

April 7, 2016

I don’t now how to start this, and maybe just saying that is the easiest way. I think of you …

Oldest in the middle – The Reunion Aftermath aka: Collateral Damage Part 3

July 25, 2015

I made a promise to myself, that as a fellow birthmother, and her daughter, I would do anything to help …

July 24, 2015

Over the next few years, I would occasionally ask about finding my sister. Her absence gnawed away at me. I …

July 23, 2015

I remember it like it was yesterday. My mom and I were in the living room and I had shyly …

January 14, 2015

I knew, this summer when my son turned 19 it was going to be a turning point. To me, it …

December 5, 2014

Many years ago, I began a search for my roots. It was after my grandmother, who was an adoptee, passed …

December 2, 2014

I am the first “kept” child of a birthmom in a closed adoption. Being the first kept child of a …

December 1, 2014

Freshly churned out of the adoption machine. The newly minted birthmom unleashed into the world. The attitudes of the freshly …

November 28, 2014

Up until recently, I was, what I like to call an “in the closet” Birth mom. I, at one time …