One Option Means No Choice

This past year I haven't spent as much time in adoptionland as I used to but lately I've waded back into the fray- just here and th...

Hi ya'll. Last year I talked about doing an exhibit with my Silent Voices series in Macon GA in April of '16. (Yikes, it's been ...

A while ago I asked mothers of adoption loss if they would like to be included in this painting. I added their names and the birthdays of...

Photograph: Alamy "People don't tend to have the same respect for emotional brokenness as they do physical brokenness. Because...

Reading this post  - and please read it - recently brought back to mind a conversation I had with someone who had spent a few months working...

  I want to share some info. I've put together a book of my paintings and poetry in the Silent Voices series and it's now avail...

The Vessel 48x36 oil Young and supple, keeper of the precious. Lifeblood pulses, cells are shared. Body to body the histo...

What Remains 48x36 Standing at the edge, treading lightly, casting what's left of myself. Who I was is gone. This is wh...

that there are laws governing the age at which a kitten or puppy can be adopted? The below info was taken from the  Animal Legal & ...

This picture reminds me of adoption. So many thousands of us suffered damage and so many more continue to suffer from past separations ...

Some are celebrating what's called Birth Mother Day today. This is not to take anything away from the women who find comfort in that k...

"Thank you for my child" This is one of those statements that makes me want to hurl. I see it all the time on adoptive parent site...

Sometimes I see speculation online about natural mothers and how we feel. Others speak for us. They make assumptions about what we're th...