Post #900

April 3, 2013

Remember this 16 months ago?   Today? This. If you haven’t already ordered your copy, go ahead now. Who will be the first to leave an Amazon review? Many thanks to all of you who are sharing pix of your own copy via Facebook and Twitter — it’s such a thrill for me!

AdoptLit: The Sound of Hope book tour

April 2, 2013

Several book lovers are sharing our thoughts about Anne Bauer’s memoir, The Sound of Hope: An Adoptee’s Quest for her Origins. Even if you aren’t part of the tour* and even if you haven’t read the book, check out what people are saying about it — you might find that this book is one you [...]

Perfect Moment Monday: For No Reason

March 24, 2013

A few weeks ago my mom gave me a just because gift. It wasn’t my birthday or Christmas or any other present-giving occasion. It was just that my mom was at a store and a ring (on sale at one of those stores at which, if you ever pay full price for anything, you are [...]

Who gets to decide who is a second-best family?

March 19, 2013

Families living in adoption deal with ranking all the time. People wonder: which is more important — nature or nurture? I’m on a mission, as I stated in my keynote speech last week, to get people to stop thinking this way when it comes to biology and biography. BOTH are important to a child and [...]

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