I just finished a book called Write or Die, Writing Ideas for Adopted People. Here’s a peek inside.

Hi, I’m Mike and I’m a multiplicity of options addict.

I’ve been thinking about guilt because it’s this month’s topic in the Zoom class Joyce Maguire Pavao and I are leading for a group of adopted people.

I like to think in the megaphone voice which, when I type, is all caps. I like to imagine what it would have been like if, when I was small, I could have talked to those around me in the megaphone voice with the awareness I have now about the things I was struggling with as an adopted person.

One Christmas Eve, I decided that I would bring Mrs. Beasley to the church and put her in the pile of toys on the altar.

Ever since my first retreat to Italy in 2019, I've been dreaming my way back.

We didn’t ask to be born. We didn’t ask our mother’s to give us up. (Or, who knows, maybe we did.) But we’re here.

If the pandemic were a movie, it wouldn’t make any sense.

I was just fine before. Struggling, but fine. Now I’m in shock, and my brain feels murky and sticky. Now I feel like I’m living in a fog.

I can’t focus.

A woman emailed me recently because her boyfriend had broken up with her and she was hoping it was because he was adopted.

I am in HEAVEN and it’s all because of an app I found for people with I.B.S. I don’t even know if I officially have I.B.S., but after a free week-long trial and then a $60ish payment, I officially have the Nerva app.