Interview with Lucky Bastard Filmmaker and Adoptee, Elijah Thomas
Elijah Thomas was adopted at three months old and grew up in a closed adoption. When he was 18, he met his birth mother for the first time. When he…
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An Adoptive Mom’s Movie Review of Lion
Okay, this post isn’t actually a review of the Oscar-nominated movie Lion. It’s more like—here’s what deeply moved this adoptive mama after watching, tissue box in hand, the true story…
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Adoption, in Six Words or Less
Inspired by Six-Word Memoirs and the book series The Best Advice in Six Words, by Larry Smith, I thought it would be interesting, inspiring, and all around great to solicit…
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Why I Support Adoptee Rights
I am looking at my daughter's birth certificate. Right there, in plain print, it states that Beth is a "Child of" myself and my husband. It lists her birth date…
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Adoption - My View Five Years Into the Journey
As Ethiopia contemplates more big changes to its intercountry adoption program, employees of an adoption agency were recently indicted, and we plan another family trip back, I found myself reflecting…
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What’s Your Open Adoption Truth?
You might have seen my somewhat rambling posts on the AdoptiveFamiliesCircle group boards: A call for participants to be part of a genuine, frank, and heartfelt web series about open…
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The Other Half of the Conversation
The other day my three-year old son, Max, was standing on a chair next to the kitchen sink "helping" me wash dishes when he noticed a picture laying on the…
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Why, When, What: Anticipating Adoption Questions
You need only spend a short time with our family to know that we have entered what I call the "why, when, what" stage with our son, Max. A typical…
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A Three-Year-Old’s World
All parents have moments when we look at our children and see a little bit of ourselves. When our son Max, whom we adopted domestically, tucks in Mr. Froggie, he…
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A Thousand Words
A picture says a thousand words -- isn't that what they say? As you may have read in my previous blog post, Capturing My Son's Moments, I am something of…
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