Tag: mental illness
Secrets, Shame and No Regrets: Adoptee Reunion
Welcome to 30 Adoption Portraits in 30 Days, hosted by Portrait of an Adoption. This series will feature guest posts by people with widely varying adoption experiences. By Lisa Coppola I met my birthmother, Margaret, on her sixty-ninth birthday, November 24th 2012. I was thirty-one years old, two and a half years into recovery from... Read more »
The Adoption Story Nobody Talks About
In honor of November being National Adoption Awareness Month, Portrait of an Adoption is hosting the fifth annual acclaimed series, 30 Adoption Portraits in 30 Days. Designed to give a voice to the many different perspectives of adoption, this series will feature guest posts by people with widely varying experiences. By Anonymous We hoped... Read more »
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30 Adoption Portraits in 30 Days – 2017
Meet The Blogger

Carrie Goldman
I am a writer, artist, wife and mother of three fantastic girls! My new children's adoption book is Jazzy's Quest: Adopted and Amazing, and my adult nonfiction book is Bullied: What Every Parent, Teacher, and Kid Needs To Know About Ending the Cycle of Fear. And I LOVE chocolate!
Recent posts
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Wear Star Wars Share Star Wars 2018 »
Carrie Goldman on Portrait of an AdoptionPosted December 2, 2018 at 8:46 am -
You Have a Piece of My Heart and I Have a Piece of Yours »
Carrie Goldman on Portrait of an AdoptionPosted November 30, 2018 at 8:11 am -
A Week With An Eight-Year-Old »
Carrie Goldman on Portrait of an AdoptionPosted November 29, 2018 at 5:51 am -
The Complicated Calibration of Love, Especially in Adoption »
Carrie Goldman on Portrait of an AdoptionPosted November 28, 2018 at 5:15 am -
Five Siblings Found »
Carrie Goldman on Portrait of an AdoptionPosted November 27, 2018 at 7:23 am
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