Search and Reunion

This tag is associated with 3 posts

Found at last!

Posted by Terri S. Vanech ⋅ January 11, 2013 ⋅ 45 Comments

It’s her! It’s her! It’s her! As most of you know, I’m rarely speechless. Almost never without a smart remark to widely share. But I am tonight. I can’t think straight except to know I finally found my birth mother, Patricia Clark. A call tonight with a relative of hers confirmed what I hoped was … Continue reading →

Quest for true understanding about the pain associated with adoption

Posted by Terri S. Vanech ⋅ August 5, 2012 ⋅ 13 Comments

Most Sundays, the New York Times’ Modern Love column makes me smile, or cry. Today’s sent me straight to the keyboard. Elizabeth Foy Larsen’s “Untying a Birth Mother’s Hands,” gets points for having the right instinct — to connect her adopted 6-year-old daughter to her roots — but what it has in heart it lacks … Continue reading →

Weather or not, my search goes on

Posted by Terri S. Vanech ⋅ July 18, 2012 ⋅ 6 Comments

I was not sure what to make of the state of the weather as I set off today to meet the documentary filmmaker working on a film about adoption and adoption search. Just as I reached the train station, the skies opened up — a real monsoon — and there I was with my carefully … Continue reading →