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There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious–makes you so sick at heart–that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all….
Mario Savio, Sproul Hall steps, Deccember 2, 1964 Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 24. Junkyo Ohishi: Dancer, Artist, Buddhist Nun, Activist, Adoptee, Survivor. A Short Portrait

As a young teenager ,she trained as a dancer and geisha. and performed under the name of  Tsumakichi.. In 1903 ,when she was 15, her adopted father murdered 5 geishas in his school, slashed Ohishi across the face with a knife, and cut off her arms! Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM2025 Day 23. Brief Thoughts on Adoptee Displacement

The displacement for me is the acrobatics of adoption,. The handsprings, the way our identities, our histories, our origin, ourselves are tossed into the air, twisted and turned. The tightwire we walk between our adoptee reality and our forced pretense. What the rest of the world sees and believes cluelessly and what we know intimately Continue Reading →

NAM.NAAM Day 22, 2025: Donald Trump’s NAM 2025 Proclamation.

As I suspected he would, Donald Trump  (AKA his keepers) finally got around to issuing the traditional National Adoption Month Presidential Proclamation. I found this in the Federal Registry, dated November 17, 2025…But…Do we really want the imprimatur of Trump on our foreheads? Continue Reading →

NAN/NAAM Day 21. Federal Legislation Introduced to Kick Adoption Facilitators to the Curb

No bill number is listed in the press release, and I can’ find it by name on the US Senate Legislative page, so it’s just been dropped with no action yet.  Without reading the details I can’t critique, endorse or diss it, but if there is nothing in language hidey-holes it looks good- (for once!). This is something adoption reformers have practically begged for for decades:  kicking adoption facilitators– aka leeches, crooks, frauds–out of business. Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 20: NAM/NAAM is Eating my Brain

Here we are, November 20, 2025, and nearly 2/3 through NAM/NAAM.  It’s the middle of the night, and I have nothing to say…writing every day about adoption and its adjacents is a killer. And, so limiting. I want to jump out the window, but we live in a 1-storey house, and I could only crawl out the window, if I could get it open Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 18: Was Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc’s Monica Kelsey Dangerously Discarded?

or a long time I have questioned some of the origin story of Monical Kelsey, the CEO/founder of SHBB Inc. I believe that much of it is true as told, but there is some artful dodging at the same time. One thing that has really bothered me for years is her narrative that she was abandoned at the hospital by her mother 2 hours after birth. Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 19. Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Gets Some Good Press in Israel

A couple weeks ago, I interviewed with Roni Dori from Calcalist, the largest business publication in Israel, regarding adoptee opposition to Safe Haven Baby Boxes. The official English language article will be out next week, and I think it will be online. But in the meantime, here is the original, which you can translate with Google. Translate. Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 17, 2025. The Baby Box Questions that Safe Haven Baby Box Inc CEO Monica Kelsey Ran Away from In Hamilton, Ohio

Below is the list of questions political watchdog Chris Hicks attempted to ask SHBB Inc CEO/Founder Monica Kelsey at last week’s baby box opening in Hamilton, Ohio. Instead of being professional and answering them or politely declining, she called for Security and ran away.  Each question is reasonable and something that a member of any legislature might ask–and in some cases has asked. Did she run out of the hearing room? Call for the state patrol? Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 16. Weirdo Facebook Convo about Adoption and Safe Haven Practices. Adopt a Fetus

he Adoption-Safe Haven Baby Box thread caught my eye, bringing a new insanity to Safe Haven discourse. “Yes Adoption. Pro-Life will often say that there is no difference between a human life that is born and a life that is unborn. So if those that are born can be adopted, let the unborn be adopted as well.“ Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 15. Hey Donald! Where’s the Annual NAM/NAAM Presidential Proclamation?

We are halfway through NAM/NAMM and have yet to see the annual NAM/NAM Presidential Proclamation. We’ve gotten one every year for years even during Trump 1. What’s going on?…I’m glad he’s ignoring us. I don’t want the good name of Bastard sullied by his pathetic orange self.  We are messed with enough without his grubby small fingers poking into our business Continue Reading →