obsessions & other lovely snacks
TIME TRAVEL
11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies’ Archive of Americana Architecture: Download, Use & Re-Mix
(thompson mayes, forum journal, volume 29, number 3, Spring 2015, pp. 7-16)
one of these goofy guys is my bio uncle
doctors hospital: a "fashionable treatment center for the well-to-do."she left me here
shelton towers hotel. 49th & lex.
where we lived before i was born
NEW YORK RADIO of the 60s
THINGS I HAVE WRITTEN
flash-memoir/relinquishment porn:
"mayonnaise," my first contribution to a literary magazine.
special feature "letters to adoption."
general placemat poetry:
side 2
BOOKS, FILMS, ARTICLES
concerning relinquishment/adoption
BOOKSanne heffron, you don't look adopted (2016)
passionately reviewed by [birth mother] first mother forum (2018)
susan kiyo ito, i would meet you anywhere: a memoir (2023)
h. david kirk, shared fate: a theory of adoption and mental health (1964)
first adoption book to challenge twisted social ideas like "matching" babies to potential adoptive parents' traits, pretending that there is no difference between an adopted child and a natural child. suggesting a new consciousness that acknowledges the truth. that adoptive parents are raising someone else's child.
nancy verrier, the primal wound (1993)
>related film, reckoning with the primal wound (2022)
jeanette winterson, why be happy when you could be normal?
ARTICLESoperation identity, a wild and extensive listing of books, pamphlets and other such things around membership in the so-called adoption "triad" (since 1979, new mexico)
FILMSreview by roger ebert (1994)
"Graham Holt (William Hurt) is a reclusive Welsh postal worker who lives with his terminally ill father. Aware that he'll soon be alone, Graham decides to adopt a son, but, because he's a single man, he's told he'll be offered only the most troubled children available. He soon begins a visitation period with a volatile young boy named James (Chris Cleary Miles) whose mother committed suicide and whose father (Keith Allen) is serving time in jail." (review, rotten tomatoes)