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Category Archives: Biography
Adoptive Parents – Smh
I knew that I’d get to it eventually. But I wanted to sit and meditate on what I wanted to say first. I have been around adoptive parents a long time- well, my whole life to be exact…. But this … Continue reading
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The Journey Home
In a couple weeks, I am about to embark on a journey of a lifetime. A journey that I honestly never even fathomed being on. A journey that I never even realized that I longed for. I call it my … Continue reading
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Tagged adoptee, adoptee rights, adoption, ancestors, biography, biracial, birth family, birth story, life story, Reunion, transracial adoptee, transracial adoption
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Speak Life
What do you do when everyone around speaks from fear and doubt, but you want to embrace hope? How do you respond when death is the answer from so many people’s lips, but you want to embrace life? How do … Continue reading
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Shattered Dreams
Remember the song “Shattered Dreams” by Johnny Hates Jazz? That’s what my life has felt like for a long time and especially this last year. I never thought my marriage would end. I never imagined having to live without my … Continue reading
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DNA Dreams Do Come True
After five years of searching and coming up against brick walls, my cousin, Toni Angelique Harrison, has finally found her biological father! For those who have not been following this story, or don’t know me, or haven’t read this blog; … Continue reading
My Sunken Place
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. FUCK!!! Why do I still have this letter? Why do I continue to torture myself like this? I wrote this letter 15 years ago. In the Spring of 2002. Desperately looking for a woman whom I … Continue reading
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Recharge
Sometimes I feel empty. Sometimes I feel like I can’t go on. Sometimes I feel like the entire world is against me. And there’s nothing that I do that will make it better. Sometimes I feel like a complete and … Continue reading
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Bittersweet
The view from my back yard in Elton. Today I head back to NOLA after spending a week in Elton for various reasons- to celebrate my birthday with my family, doctors appointment, labs and blood work and fun stuff like … Continue reading
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Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler
Living in New Orleans can be a bit of a vacation for life. I once said when I moved to Louisiana that I have never been in a place where I can literally drink rum all day AND get everything … Continue reading
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Birthdays
Today is my son’s birthday. My only son and my youngest child. Twelve years ago, at this time, 10am, I was just starting labor and he wouldn’t come for several hours. My ob/gyn was a doctor who was originally from … Continue reading
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