Tag: adoptee
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Adoptee Deportation/Citizenship Challenge
I’ve been following this blog for a while now. It’s one of the few blogs by adoptees that is more positive or should I say objective about both sides of the adoption issue. One topic that has come up lately has been about citizenship for international adoptees. Mostly I haven’t participated or even read much…
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Adoption Journey – 3B
During the conference, I took an afternoon and called Diane. It was so wonderful to talk to her! 😀 Unfortunately, my phone died mid-conversation and it took me a while to get it charged back up due to not bringing a plug converter…so much for all my packing experience! Anyway, it was like a light…
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Adoption Journey – 3A
Well, remember back when I wrote saying that I was waiting to hear back from someone I had found on Facebook about being my 2nd or first US foster mother? It was her!!! She wrote back and I have replied. It seems surreal. I actually have no memory whatsoever of this person, but from the…
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My Adoption Journey – 4
I am wondering if this falls under ‘Adoption Journey’ or if I should be starting a new thread entitled ‘The Search’…? Anyway, I guess it all runs together in the end as MY LIFE! So, the latest – Three days ago now, I received an email from the social worker in Korea. She said that…
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My Adoption Journey – 3
So, now that I am ‘free’ish again, I am focusing my attentions on more details of my adoption journey. Thanks to the world of Facebook, I have found a couple more possible people and written them messages. Diane Ehnes – who was my foster mother between adopted family 1 and 2. I found someone who…
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My Adoption Journey – 2A
An update on what I’ve learned so far – A woman who lives at the number that was left in the post called me back. She said that Cathy used to live with her, but that she hasn’t heard anything about her for 12 years. She said the last she heard, Cathy had moved to…
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My Adoption Journey – 2
It’s been almost six months since I wrote the first post about my adoption journey. The idea back then was that I would write more regularly about my experience as I try to make time to write my dream novel. Maybe one of these days I’ll find enough discipline and motivation to actually do that.…
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More Adoption Links
This weekend, I’ve been looking at some more adoption links found on a couple of new sites that I started following. The web presence is growing and growing…. The links are also on the right side under ‘Adoptees/Adoption’. The Declassified Adoptee (http://www.declassifiedadoptee.com) Production not Reproduction – Open Adoption Blogs (http://www.productionnotreproduction.com/p/open-adoption-blogs.html) Article on literature of adoption…
