HOW TO COMMUNICATE WHEN THERE’S NO COMMUNICATION
*When you haven’t found your child or birth family yet. *When you meet and it didn’t go well, and now they don’t accept calls or texts....
ALONE: Memories Intensify with COVID-19
For those of us who were sent away to maternity homes or to stay with strangers to give birth alone, this time of isolation because of...
WHY WE CAN’T HEAL, AND HOW WE CAN - THE ESSENTIAL STEP TO HEALING TRAUMA AND PTSD
Trauma is the result of an experience we don’t want to relive, one that we feel helpless to deal with and believe there is no way out of....
ADOPTION REUNION AS THE HERO’S JOURNEY
The hero’s journey begins with a call from deep within that finally surfaces and can no longer be ignored. The call is almost always met...
THE CHILDREN FROM MEXICO WILL REMAIN IN MY HEART FOREVER THEY UNDERSTOOD ME WHEN MANY OTHERS DIDN’T
One spring day in 1999, I received a call asking me to speak to a fourth grade class on being an author. People from all kinds of...
Unwed Mothers and the Vietnam War
“Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again.” Raw is the only way I can describe how I felt watching Ken Burn’s PBS...