10 Year Adoptee / Birth Father Reunion Anniversary: A Video Tribute

Adoptee Meet Birth Father

This is a video my daughter and I made in honor of our 10 year reunion with my birth father, who at 69 years old learned he had a daughter and grand daughter in this world. We all shared ten glorious years together, before his passing on Nov. 3, 2021. Though never given the opportunity […]

A Memoir About an Adoption that Never Happened.

memoir writing

A memoir about an adoption that never happened. It is a black market baby’s story about the parents who held onto her as tightly as they did her secret, and the mother who let her go. It is about one woman’s walk home, a journey back to self, a healing of primal wounds, to claim her truth and correct her identity.

Seven Years’ Time

July 1 –  I meet him standing at the top of a short dusty road, turned onto from a long hot highway that had stretched decades behind me.  The journey to my paternal birth family had begun at my first breath, a trip that would last 40 odd years. Siri would have told me “I […]

Adoptees & Divorce

Adoptees & Divorce: Had I known my adoption reunion would lead to my divorce, would I have done it anyway? To quote Anne Sexton, I sit here “on the spike of truth,” and I say ‘Yes, I would have.’ I can confirm that yes, there are significant divorce risks in adoption reunions and many hurdles […]

Finding My Birth Father

A year ago today, thanks to my birth mother Lina’s search for the truth and the man connected to it (and her sharing that information with me), I learned my birth father’s name is Jerry Knight. I learned one year ago, on this day, that he was alive and very much wanted to meet me. Within a few days I wrote him a letter and took the second step on my adoption journey.