Welcome to My Writing!
Thanks so much for joining me as I explore the common language of those touched by adoption in such universal themes as separation, impermanence, loss, identity, empathy, quest, and reunion. In Memoir-ish Musings by Mel, you’ll find my joys of nature and gardens, Japanese poetic forms, vignettes, and slices of life. The collage of stories, letters, vignettes, and photos I assembled for I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls represents the fragmentation of an adoptee’s experience, and how putting the pieces together helped my healing. The art and craft of telling our personal stories has power and meaning. Like a broken clay pot, re-assembled using lacquer and gold powder, in Japanese, Kintsugi, or "golden joinery", we become even more valuable. Thanks so much for taking the time to listen and read.
About the Author
Mary Ellen’s work has been published in many literary journals, including Gravel Magazine, Wildflower Muse, The Remembered Arts Journal, Vignette Review, Modern Creative Life, A Thousand and One Stories, Halcyon Days, Nature Writing, Memoir Magazine, Haibun Today, Contemporary Haibun Online, Carpe Arte, Winter Street Writers, Amethyst Review, mac(ro)mic, Soft Cartel, Writing In A Woman's Voice, The Drabble, FewerThan500, StoryLand, and Bella Mused. She recorded the events and impressions around her cerebral vascular accident in Stroke Story: My Journey There and Back, and its sequel, Coming to Terms: My Journey Continues. Her creative compilation of both books is Fortitude's Footing: Coming to Terms With Stroke. Her book of autobiographical essays and vignettes is Permanent Home: A Memory Collection. Her memoir, I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls, is widely available.
