Dear Mom,
Dear Mom, We have never met. I don’t know your name, hair color, where you live, your profession, your favorite food, if you drink coffee, and if you do if you like creamer in your coffee. I do; however, know one thing about you. I know you love me very much. You not only loved…
Read MoreWith Time – Poem by Thomas Castleberry written for his wife on Birth Mothers Day
WITH TIME (-written by Thomas Castleberry for his wife on Birth Mothers Day.) I know the bravery, you deny. I’ve seen the beauty you try to hide. I hear the despair in your sighs. I have felt the tears when cry. How can a decision, made with all the best intentions, be so painful?…
Read MoreTo my Son’s Adoptive Mom on Birth Mothers Day,
To my Son’s Adoptive Mom on Birth Mothers Day, Our relationship began on paper and I find myself 30 years later using the same means of communication. A LETTER. It all started with anonymous LETTERS between us. Yours was a bio that told me all about you and your spouse and the kind of lifestyle…
Read MoreFeeling the Mother’s Day Blues?
“Will all the mothers please stand up? Do you have any children?” Mothers Day is almost here and for many women it comes with some unwanted questions and an array of mixed feelings. Women who are unable to bear children or who have had children who are no longer living may feel loss and…
Read MoreLetter To My Child’s Adoptive Mother,
To My Child’s Adoptive Mother, I write to you now because I have lived each day with this complexity and need to open up to you about it. You and I share this unique relationship with each other that began with the life of the child whom we both love so dearly. We both identify…
Read MoreHappy Birthday, Graham! A Birth Day Poem From Your Birth Father
One Year Ago One year ago the world became a better place. Our life’s became darker one year ago. Our sacrifice brought so much joy. Our loss made a family. Feelings of pride and sorrow intertwine. My burden to bare, and I would not change it. My wife lost a son. My son lost a…
Read MoreA Letter to My Adversaries in the Adoption Community
A Letter to my Adversaries in the Adoption Community Dear Adversaries, Is adoption traumatic to every birth mother or is the relationship we have with the people involved traumatic? Traumatic events in life happen. Part of being alive means we are going to come in contact with good and evil. Events like birth, death,…
Read MoreMy Amazing Weeklong Visit with ALL of the Children that I Placed for Adoption
I had not seen 3 of my kids in about 10 years. The oldest currently lives with me. I received updates through their adoptive mom, Sandra and pictures throughout the years. I watched them grow from a distance, yearning for more connection. I wanted to know how much they knew of me, what did they…
Read MoreHow My Open Adoption Relationship Developed Over Time
I have been a birth mom for a little over five years. I have two birth sons placed with the same family who are 5 and 3 years old. From the beginning, our adoption was extremely open. I had visits very often, at least once a month and every holiday. Sometimes, we would even spontaneously…
Read MoreOur Adoption Journey
Our Journey I am a birth father, this is the story of my wife’s and my adoption journey. We had been together 17 years. We had a 12 year old son. Then while at the E.R. my wife learned she was pregnant. That is when our world was turned upside down. We knew we did…
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