Blogs about: Being Adopted
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Wanted?
I had the oddest experience the other day (well, actually, all of last week was odd, but I digress) . . . as we were reminiscing, my brother Michael kept talking about events that happened “befo… more →
I wanna love You better whatever it takes . . .
Can You Imagine?
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wrote 1 week ago: I’m sure plenty of people must know how I feel, since I can’t be the only person ever ad … more →
Someone, Take It
wrote 1 month ago: Bones and chains represent my madness My rose drips blood for a reason Sweet redness so dear to the … more →
Flight Path
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wrote 4 months ago: When I find myself posting for the sake of posting, sometimes I utilize the word association game to … more →
waiting for jane
wrote 7 months ago: When I was 12, my father told my brother and I we were adopted. What a strange thing to find out abo … more →
Living Nowhere
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wrote 7 months ago: There was this one time where my bestfriend’s mom asked me to co-host a children’s birth … more →
wanted?
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wrote 9 months ago: I had the oddest experience the other day (well, actually, all of last week was odd, but I digress) … more →
going "home", part two
wrote 9 months ago: “They say your style of life’s a drag And that you must go other places But just don … more →
Hospitality
wrote 9 months ago: When last we met, I was talking about my awkwardness, my fear of being a houseguest, and the discomf … more →
going "home", part one
wrote 9 months ago: five days, and at least as many blog posts. This one has to be written as sort of a prequel to the n … more →
Life is a snowglobe
wrote 1 year ago: So it has been a whiteout for days. I am trapped in with a toothache from an emergency root canal wi … more →
I didn't know what to say . . .
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wrote 1 year ago: As much as I am FIENDING to snark about the arrival of the 18th Duggar, at this moment there’s … more →
The Twenty Dollars
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wrote 1 year ago: Cinder-fucking-rella I have always wondered if my adoptive father would have been nicer if we were h … more →
What's in a name? (sounds like "tissues")
wrote 1 year ago: Today I found out my birth father’s full name. His name is Kilgore Trout so if you see him … more →
From whence we came, and how it ain't the same
wrote 1 year ago: I think a lot about the pre-adoption experience and how it so permanently affected and formed my bro … more →
The Primal Wound
wrote 1 year ago: “If anyone had told me when we brought home our three day old daughter on Christmas Eve, 1969, … more →
It's complicated.
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wrote 1 year ago: UPDATE: Since posting this blog people have sent me many a link to the more personal and candid adop … more →
from the xanga archives . . . childhood baggage
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wrote 1 year ago: baby lorraine I wrote a version of this in an e-mail to my church . . . they have been asking for pi … more →
am I weird?
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wrote 1 year ago: (um, yeah. you didn’t have to answer that in the affirmative quite so quickly!) I am almost 39 … more →
We all have a little bit of "Mona" in us . . .
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wrote 1 year ago: Last week, after yet another doctor’s appointment, I took Mona to her all-time favorite restau … more →
