The Long Road of Blog

Anne Heffron 7/16/22 Anne Heffron 7/16/22

Finding Belonging in Community: You Are Not Alone -- Guest Post by the Flourish Artists

What do you get when trauma, vulnerability and talent walk into the same room?

Anne Heffron 7/5/22 Anne Heffron 7/5/22

Getting Your Natal Chart Read as an Adopted Person by an Adopted Person: Mic Drop

No adoption agency or orphanage or birth mother or adoptive parents or government can change the placement of the stars and the planets.

Anne Heffron 6/30/22 Anne Heffron 6/30/22

Dude, I Don't Know What to Title This--Guest Blog Post by Mallory Hawkins

We should have choice.

Anne Heffron 6/20/22 Anne Heffron 6/20/22

Bad Dogs for Sale

Today is Juneteenth.

Anne Heffron 6/9/22 Anne Heffron 6/9/22

My New Book

1. You have the right to the facts of your life.

Anne Heffron 6/7/22 Anne Heffron 6/7/22

Life After the Fog -- A Year-Long Group for Adopted People

What would you do if you felt supported and safe?

Anne Heffron 6/2/22 Anne Heffron 6/2/22

Postcard Club

I got a postcard from my friend Ridghaus yesterday

Anne Heffron 5/31/22 Anne Heffron 5/31/22

Summah

Last night Janie and I walked the dogs to J.T.’s for soft serve.

Anne Heffron 4/27/22 Anne Heffron 4/27/22

A Couple of Sections from my New Book on Adopted People and Writing

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

Anne Heffron 4/7/22 Anne Heffron 4/7/22

Song of My Selves--Guest Blog Post by Mike Trupiano

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

Anne Heffron 3/27/22 Anne Heffron 3/27/22

Adoption and Guilt

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.

Anne Heffron 3/22/22 Anne Heffron 3/22/22

70/30 or How Aware are You of You? or Fun with the Megaphone Voice

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.