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Xenalgia vs. Nostalgia: a Proposal 27 Aug 2013 | 12:06 am
Elsewhere, the “dis-ease” of nostalgia has recently been invoked. The medicalisation of this term already raises interesting questions, and its etymology sheds further light on this: 1770, “severe ho...
The Indigenous and the Adopted: a Link? 26 Aug 2013 | 04:58 am
From here, we have just a brief excerpt from an article about suicide (and other health risks) amongst indigenous people around the world: Some of the reports alarming statistics include, “In the Uni...
The Break with the Past 15 Aug 2013 | 10:40 pm
In the days when nostalgia was a disease people were punished for looking back. A nostalgic soldier might have been buried alive for expressing that they miss home. “For a little boy who missed his w...
Yellow fever: The exotic adoptee. 11 Aug 2013 | 10:11 am
I found this sitting in the “pending” pile; Girl4708 has given me permission to update and post. She originally wrote: As I approved another comment today on a blog post I wrote about Woody Allen, I ...
The “middlemen” of return. 10 Aug 2013 | 08:22 pm
In a previous question [link] I asked whether you as an adoptee would repatriate yourself if your place of birth afforded you some kind of re-entry to the country, language, culture, etc. Girl4708 rep...
Redressing the Second Offense 27 Jul 2013 | 10:19 pm
In a previous post, I asked what strategies we have discovered for addressing those sorts of occasions when we find ourselves face-to-face with with people expressing “opinions” (they almost always ca...
Addressing the Second Offense 27 Jul 2013 | 08:18 pm
In reading some of the posts on birthdays, in experiencing as a result some of my own vast, unexpected sadness behind that topic as well as reading it in others, I saw how the trauma expressed, though...
How can you mourn the loss of an adopted child who did not die? 20 Jul 2013 | 12:01 am
From the phrase list of searches that led to the site. Analyze/comment/reply at will.
“America the Terrible” 14 Jul 2013 | 12:58 pm
O ugliness for specious lies, for endless waves of pain, for purple’s bruise and blackened eyes above a fruitless plaint …. America! America! god shat his grace on thee and crowned a hood’s fals...
How much did you cost? The literal price of adoption. 13 Jul 2013 | 02:31 am
Now that the crowdfunding craze has caught up with adoption, it is normal within adoption mediation to talk about “sticker shock” concerning the price of adopting children. I realize that just once I ...
