Essays about adoption
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To Keep Her Safe
Read more: To Keep Her SafeThey say hindsight is 20/20, and in this case, that is absolutely true.
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The Mother I Didn’t Deserve
Read more: The Mother I Didn’t DeserveShe’s the worst person I’ve ever had the misfortune of knowing. I wish I was exaggerating.
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My Story is Rooted in Adoption
Read more: My Story is Rooted in AdoptionEvery member of the triad tells a completely different story. My siblings and I have vastly different stories. The story of my biological mother is night-and-day-different from my story of being a birthmother. I’ve never met an adoptee nor a birthmother with the same story as me.
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Letters by the Dumb, Written for Deaf Eyes
Read more: Letters by the Dumb, Written for Deaf EyesThis is what it is to be a birthmother: to love someone who doesn’t even know you exist.
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My Heroes
Read more: My HeroesI can’t discuss my heroes without also discussing adoption. For me, the two are inextricably linked. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s funny, in the adoption world there really are no rules or solid expectations because no two stories are the same. Even the stories experienced and told by siblings differ. There…
In Kim's Words 