by Julie McGue | Aug 28, 2019 | Touched By Adoption
Why Do We Dream of the Dead? Julie McGue Author If you follow me on Facebook, you may have read my recent posts about some ‘psychic’ experiences that occurred to me during my lifetime. The first one (see FB post on 8/1) transpired when I was a young girl and...
by Julie McGue | Aug 14, 2019 | Touched By Adoption
What is Open Adoption? Julie McGue Author I am an adoptee from a closed adoption from the Baby Scoop Era (post WWII through 1980s), so I’m not familiar firsthand with the specifics of open adoption. Open adoption was not an option available to adoptive parents...
by Julie McGue | Jul 31, 2019 | Touched By Adoption
The Power of Words Julie McGue Author The Saturday morning before the 4th of July, I was doing what most folks I know were doing: poking around in the garden, meandering on walking trails and bike paths, and parked on the lakefront relishing in the longed-for...
by Julie McGue | Jul 17, 2019 | Touched By Adoption
Adoptees Weigh In On The Abortion Dialogue Julie McGue Author This early June pollen count has made being outdoors so hostile that I’m in self-exile, warming a chair in an air controlled office, reading articles I’d normally skim. The new Alabama abortion law...
by Julie McGue | Jul 3, 2019 | Touched By Adoption
Rejection Goes Both Ways Julie McGue Author Rejection is at the absolute core of adoption. So often we read about adoptees navigating the rejection or dismissal of a birth parent they have worked hard to find. In this repost from the Family Section at The...
by Julie McGue | Jun 19, 2019 | Touched By Adoption
Two Fathers, One Dad Julie McGue Author I’m stuck on this. Today being Father’s Day has me cogitating about the big picture of this special day. Not the idea of having two fathers but that I consider only one of them my Dad. It is just so very complex when...
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