Casting Shadows

I’m moving this blog away from adoption-related posts for a while. Actually, most people who drop by may not notice it much, because I generally write about a lot of other stuff anyway, with adoption dropping in from time to time.

It’s not because anyone has been mean to me about adoption (because I would totally talk about it if I had my very own troll), or that adoption reform isn’t important to me (it is), or because I don’t have anything to say about it anymore (I do).  For the most part, it’s because my story is intrinsically tied to my daughter’s story, and with a major milestone in her life coming up rapidly, I’m realizing that before I keep detailing things about our story here, I need to talk with her. I need to tell her the things I’ve been writing here. I need to keep her privacy and her rights in mind, because they are, for better or for worse, linked in with my rights to talk about my part of our story.

Also, to be perfectly honest, it feels like adoption (and all of its ills) has gathered more power from me than I have ever wanted to give it. It casts its long shadow everywhere, and I am tired of it. Adoption is a vampire, and not the fun kind. I need to step away and stop feeding it for a time.

It’s not that I’ll never write posts about adoption. Hell, I write this today, and tomorrow I could be inspired all over again to write post after post on reform, injustice, my personal thoughts about adoption…but I rather doubt it. Most likely I will point out items of interest, I will be supportive of interesting, relevant adoption-related writing elsewhere, but I won’t focus on it here.

However, stick with me. In the coming months I plan to do some writing exercises here that I think you guys will enjoy, and I also plan to continue my summer Book Giveaways. Don’t forget to comment here by July 30th if you’d like to participate in the first round!