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Out of the Blue
A Poem in Prose excerpted from the Memoir, 'I Must Have Wandered'
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Travels with the Blue Bicycle
Or, What is Mine?
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Watch Fall Fade
and Notice the Light
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Who Are We, Anyway?
Adoptees' Existential Question
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Meeting Momma
How I Remember
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Adoptee Voices
The Stories We Learn to Tell
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Paige Strickland
The Need for Roots
and the Joy in Their Embrace
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That Old Familiar Feeling
An Adoptee's Birthday Misgivings
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Book Update!
A Quest for the Recovery of Heritage
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Depth and Distance
A Lyric of Loss
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Happenstance
A September Birthday Prose Poem
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When All Else Fails
Essay first published in the Remembered Arts Journal
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A Song for Leila
This piece is based on a portion of "River Songs" in my hybrid memoir, 'I Must Have Wandered'.
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An Adoptee's Acceptance
Some reflections on re-gaining what is lost.
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Roots and Branches
Roots and Branches
I'm as complicated as adoption. A once-upon-a-time daughter of an Air Force couple, I write on themes of separation, impermanence, loss, identity, original heritage, and the human right to our true stories.
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