Always be a poet, even in prose. 

Charles Baudelaire

Mary Ellen Gambutti, Author
I'm a writer, an adopted person,
and a stroke survivor, and a friend.

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Welcome to my writing world -

I'm so glad you're here!     
 

Words and music are my earliest memories. Language and writing were my first loves in school. I've kept up some form of word-stringing most years--only in the most difficult times letting go of the jottings, notes, lists, letters, and poetry. 

 

All of it came to a halt with a brain hemorrhage the summer of my fifty-eighth year. While home recovering after a lengthy rehab, I began to take online writing courses. I found memoirs. I was, once again, captured by the beauty of words and meaning, and began to record my experience in personal essays. Writing permitted me to take stock of life-changing events and has been therapeutic and life-affirming.

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My husband, Phil, and I now live in Lewes, DE with our fourteen-year-old Chihuahua, Maxwell, rescued from a Miami shelter.

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I write to find the truth in my experience. In my new book, I trace my life as an adoptive daughter in the 1950s and 1960s and my search and reunion with my natural family that began in 1990.
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Mary Ellen Gambutti
  • Feb 27

Welcome, I'm glad you're here!

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Mary Ellen Gambutti
  • Nov 21, 2021

As the Holidays Approach...

A wholehearted welcome! Whether or not adopted, we may have mixed feelings about the days ahead. Anxiety may accompany shopping and...
My Adoptee Memoir is On the Way!
Mary Ellen Gambutti
  • Nov 9, 2021

My Adoptee Memoir is On the Way!

Hello, friends of my website and blog - I'm thrilled to update you that I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls is...