And Other Ideas And Thoughts

While visiting with my son this afternoon the movie The Avengers came up. I mentioned the big deal the "he's adopted line" from the movie has caused online, with some people being offended, others offended at those that are offended. Surprise to me my son said he knew. What? How'd you know, I asked ...

Anyone watch it? Yikes. I can only imagine what will happen in blogland. Tons of crying on the show, girls giving up babies they'd rather keep, schlepping already born being raised babies to interviews with PAPS, asking PAPS to never tell adoptee it's adopted, thieving, alcohol swigging pregnant bi...

The new Blogger seems not to be compatible with an Ipad. Boo! Be back when I can. Try not to miss me too much! : )

Last night I celebrated my final radiation treatment for my breast cancer. First, after work, I met and had drinks with my best girlfriend. We've been friends for a good forty years now and we had a great visit as always. We toasted me and talked about how great I am and I even allowed her to talk a...

See, this is what seems to always happen. Strong blanket statements are made and then I feel an obligation to contribute, compelled to say how I feel about being adopted. I don't get why that is so surprising to anti-adoption activists since it's what they themselves are doing. I do not feel abandon...

I've been reading around and there's some discussion on people making comparisons in adoption, such as comparing adoption to slavery or the Holocaust.As I read I think about what I could compare adoption to and I realize, it's just not that simple. It's too personal and there are too many portions o...

So, I've been doing a bit of breast cancer for the past six or so months. I hadn't really planned to write about it until I saw this documentary and felt inspired to, at the very least, share the doc and draw attention to the website for the Harold P. Freeman Institute for Patient Nav...

Telling Your Other Children About The Surrendered ChildBY Mary Anne CohenFrom Origins NJ Newsletter,revised 2004. 2012One of the hardest but most necessary tasks facing first mothers is telling their other children about the surrendered brother or sister.The longer a mother has kept the secret, the ...

"I wish I had her courage. I haven't told my kids yet about my first child, but my husband knows. Yes, I am terrified."I just read this anonymous comment and I so want to talk to the person that wrote it. I want to ask anonymous about her story. I want to try to understand, to get a sense of what th...

I recently had my attention directed to this transcript of a radio program. The first blog post that brought it to my attention was highly critical of the contributions of Kimberly Leighton, one of the panel guests on the program. Leighton is assistant professor of philosophy at ...