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Letters – Mother’s Day
January 17, 1993 Dearest Cathy, Your letter was so potent, honest and welcome. I’ve been thinking about you so much. You’ve worked so hard and long and now on the home stretch to finishing your colleg… more →
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Letters - Mother's Day
wrote 1 week ago: January 17, 1993 Dearest Cathy, Your letter was so potent, honest and welcome. I’ve been thinking ab … more →
One Year Ago
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wrote 1 week ago: Get ready for mush-fest 2k13. Because it’s about to get allllllllll sentimental up in this bio … more →
Nature vs. Nurture
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wrote 1 month ago: This weekend has been a lost one for academic or social purposes – I’ve spent the bulk of it holed u … more →
a thousand years
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wrote 2 months ago: It’s been just over a year since I reunited with my birthfamily in Taipei, Taiwan. Distance, o … more →
The Adoptee's Right to Search
wrote 3 months ago: The four sisters sat at a sidewalk café to take in the Floridian breeze over drinks and dinner. Even … more →
Hurry up and wait
wrote 3 months ago: Goodness gracious it is good to blog again. Sadly work has been so overwhelming that I haven’ … more →
Choice
wrote 3 months ago: The decision to come to term and relinquish my first child in 1970 was excruciating and, except for … more →
So what do you think of being adopted, Angela? Did you ever want to search for your birthfamily?
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wrote 3 months ago: I was probably 23 when I first realized, no joke, that I would always be adopted. I realized that I … more →
Perspectives
wrote 4 months ago: Download: 06-mercy-high-mercy-low.mp3 //In the last few days, Cathy has come back into view. I liste … more →
Family ties
wrote 5 months ago: Last night, I called my parents to ask them something that I’ve been intending to ask them for a cou … more →
Adoptee Rights
wrote 5 months ago: Did you know there was such a thing? Or, more accurately, did you know there was such a movement? … more →
Passing
wrote 5 months ago: My daughter brought her mother home on Thanksgiving Day. They flew in on a gusty day to Portland, Or … more →
the letter that brought us together
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wrote 5 months ago: I have been crazy busy this week preparing for the holidays and to host a Christmas party for a bunc … more →
The Narrative
wrote 6 months ago: Excerpts from Kate (Chapter Two: Backstory) ******************************************************** … more →
Daily
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wrote 6 months ago: When our kids were born, I thought I knew how this was going to go. I worked briefly at an adoption … more →
Ancestors
wrote 6 months ago: Download: 03-sirens.mp3 //I looked into the bright blue eyes of my six-year-old grandson. My separat … more →
Birthday
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wrote 6 months ago: Download: 03-castle-of-dromore.mp3 //“Castle of Dromore” (performed by Kate Power & … more →
Cathy's Portland
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wrote 7 months ago: At my invitation, Cathy arrived in Portland, from the home of her upbringing in New Jersey, on the 4 … more →
Pools of purple
wrote 8 months ago: Woke up this morning in Baltimore to the sight of my late grandmother’s necklace folded into a pool … more →
