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• 30 Adoption Portraits in 30 Days – 2017

  For the seventh straight year, in honor of November being National Adoption Awareness Month, Portrait of an Adoption is running a special series called 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 adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, waiting adoptive parents, and foster parents-turned-adoptive parents. Painful and beautiful, these stories will bring you a deeper understanding of what adoption looks like, allowing you to appreciate the many brushstrokes that comprise a family portrait.
  
  DAY 1: Rising From Loss: I Am Unwanted And Wanted
  DAY 2: I Have a Piece of My Daughter in Them
  DAY 3: I Would Not Give Up Until I Learned The Truth About My Life
  DAY 4: Adoption Is Not A Fairy Tale; It Is Real Life
  DAY 5: My Transracial Testimony
  DAY 6: If I Had Done A Collage Of Me When I Was Young
  DAY 7: It's Our Normal; It's How We Became A Family
  DAY 8: 13 Life Lessons About Love And Adoption That I Learned From My Mom
  DAY 9: If They Could See My Boys Now
  DAY 10: Reading With Clark, Or The Case Of The Missing Parents
  DAY 11: Chase Is My Brother; I Love Him And Protect Him Like A Big Brother Should
  DAY 11: Being Adopted and Inept Parenting: A Lethal Combination
  DAY 13: She Is Free To Be Who Her Mind And Heart Truly Know She Is
  DAY 14: A Letter To My Father
  DAY 15: I Kiss This Boy's Cheeks In Twos
  DAY 16: On Destiny and Complexity
  DAY 17: What Do Hairstyles Have To Do With Adoption?
  DAY 18: 184 Days With You
  DAY 19: This Amazing Young Person Brought Together Young, Old, Black, White, Jews, Christians
  DAY 20: Adopting Never Gets Easier But It Does Get Sweeter
  DAY 21: My Birthplace Became A Reality
  DAY 22: Everyone Has Their Puzzle Completed Except Me
  DAY 23: Faithful In The Process
  DAY 24: I Had Successfully And Safely Brought Him Into This World
  DAY 25: The Kindness Of Strangers
  DAY 26: The Birth Of Adoption At The Movies
  DAY 27: It Is Okay To Be Okay
  DAY 28: What Adoption Means To Me
  DAY 29: A Family Meant To Be
  DAY 30: A Nine Year Old Transracial Adoptee Shares Her Insights And Wisdom

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  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

  • A Tale of Two Families »

    Carrie Goldman on Portrait of an Adoption
    Posted November 30, 2020 at 5:24 am

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    Carrie Goldman on Portrait of an Adoption
    Posted November 29, 2020 at 5:56 pm

  • We Give Our Kids Pieces of Ourselves, and We Watch Them Go.  »

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