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NAM/NAAM Day 27: Turkey, Unthankfulness, and Poetry

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Finally, I re-worked my Day 23, Brief Thoughts on Adoptee Displacement, into a poem, which I will send out next week to an online publication I am pretty sure will publish it right away. I need to fix a word that just doesn’t get it yet. So, I’ve now written 6 adoption poems, something I swore I would never do. If this one is published, I’ll post the link. You can read Pruning the Family Treel on Tangled Locks. Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM2025 Day 23. Brief Thoughts on Adoptee Displacement

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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.

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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 →

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

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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 →