The Long Road of Blog
“It’s as though I were living at last in my eyes, as I have always dreamed of doing, and I think then I know why I’ve come here: to see, and so to go out against new things—oh god how easily—like air in a breeze. It’s true there are moments—foolish moments, ecstasy on a tree stump—when I’m all but gone, scattered I like to think like seed…”
William Gass, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Write or Die 2.0
I invented Write or Die almost ten years ago when I needed money for food.
Being a 60-Year-Old Adopted Person at Low Tide
I have had the sense the last few years that my body, my life, is thinning and the truth of things, of myself, are more transparent to me.
On Coming to Provincetown to Write
Maybe this was a mistake, is what I am thinking as I stare at my notebook, writing in big letters IF YOU WANT TO TAKE ME DOWN JUST GET IT OVER WITH.
Doing The Work (Byron Katie’s Questions) on a Common Thought Adoptees Have
“My mother did not want me.”
Dragonflies, Adoption, and Overnight Transformation
I watched two dragonflies smash each other against a branch sticking out of the murky water’s edge the other day, and I’ve been thinking about them ever since.
On Falling (oh! the joy!)
Up until yesterday late afternoon, the main way I’d fight back tears when I didn’t want to cry was to remember the time my dad fell when we were skating.
Guest Audio Blog Post by Sherry Espinosa— Writing with Chronic Illness, Adoption, and Special Forces
Sherry is one of the amazing writers I work with, and, as you will soon hear, she is a force.
Square One, Story Fondling, and Grieving
The mind is a meaning making machine, so when something happens to us that feels overwhelming, confusing, catastrophic, our mind gets to work to figure out what it all means.
Life Coaching Translated for People Who Were Adopted — Part Six—Thought Work and Drugs, I Mean Medicine
I got derailed by taking the Wayfinder life coach training.
Life Coaching Translated for Those Who Were Adopted — Part Five — Story Fondling/Story Foundling
Most adopted people have stories about being told Enough already or Everyone feels like that or Aren’t you just lucky to have a family? when speaking about adoption.
Life Coaching Translated for People Who Were Adopted— Part Four —Living With Two Body Compasses
In addition to the confusion I have between distinguishing between my nervous system and my body compass, I would like to talk about the confusion I have as an adopted person over the existence of having both a body compass and an adopted body compass.
Life Coaching Translated for People Who Were Adopted—Part Three —the Body Compass and the Nervous System
I have found that to be embodied and to be an adopted person is a paradox.