A Father’s Day Post from the West End of Galveston Island
My adoptive father and my birth father, met for the first and only time in Galveston, Texas, at a west-end marina, sometime between 1953 and 1961, a decade or so before I was born.
Claiming Your Voice Podcast Interview
Sharing My Adoption Journey with Janeice Garrard It was so exciting to do my first podcast interview as a guest on the Claiming Your Voice podcast. Janeice was so kind, set me at ease, and held a safe, supportive place for me to share my story. I talked with her about how I came to […]
GUEST POST: Why Is That Controversial? Adoptees have a stake in the fight to protect abortion rights.
Tony Corsetino offers an adoptee’s perspective on abortion right, a hot topic among adoptees: “There is an enormous moral difference, however, between relinquishment and adoption as intervening in a crisis situation for which there is no better alternative, versus instituting a de facto social system in which people are coerced into producing children for transferral into other, unrelated families.”
Our Alternate Universe: A Mother’s Day Letter to My Biological Step-Mother
From the moment we met, I knew you were not just my birth father’s wife, but that you’d somehow always been a mother I’d been missing. Nanny, the day I met you, I did not feel like you were going to become “like a mother to me,” I felt you already were. I immediately felt […]