AUBURN -- "Chosen: Adoption Stories," a new play by Linda Britt that explores the difficulties and rewards of adoption, opens Saturday, Jan. 21, at UU Theater at the First Universalist Church. With a large cast of actors portraying adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents and wannabe adoptive parents, the play is a narrative of the twists and turns and emotional extremes of the adoption process.
Patrick McDonnell, an author and creator of the popular comic strip "Mutts," will present a discussion at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 7 at Union Church in Biddeford Pool. McDonnell, of New Jersey, is making his first trip to Maine to talk about the release of his newest book, "Mutts: Shelter Stories: Love. Guaranteed," his children's books and writing his daily comic strip for the past 14 years.
Scott Simon -- the sonorous voice of NPR's "Weekend Edition" -- has written a short, tender book about the two most important people in the world. At least to him. "Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other" recounts the arrival of his two daughters, Elise and Lina, from China, while telling the stories of other families changed by adoption. Simon describes himself as skeptical of transcendence, but as taking part in a miracle. "My wife and I," he says, "knew that Elise and Lina were our babies from the moment we received their postage- stamp portraits. Logically, I know that's not possible. But I also know that's how my heart, mind and body ... reacted to their pictures. ... I would take the photo out of my wallet in the weeks before we left to get each of our girls and hold it against my lip...
[...] a third theme is the focus on "reproductive disruption," borrowing a term from biology. The response to FINNRAGE, the effort to broaden out possible understandings of reproductive technology, have been rooted in feminist anthropology and the unexpectedly productive second career of Levi-Straussian kinship studies- rescued by feminist scholars such as Sarah Franklin from the attics where antique anthropological concepts are kept and used as a framework to explore the cultural meanings and fraught paradoxes of thinking reproduction.3 There are good reasons for the long shadow of the FINRRAGE position, continuing well after its descriptive inadequacy has become clear (women and feminists actually do seek out and even rejoice in the availability of reproductive technology, and to cal...
... of reproductive technology, along with adoption and surrogacy, is statistically rare, questions ab...- and these women tell fascinating stories of how they map the body (the heart is theirs, but...
Scott Simon - the sonorous voice of NPR's "Weekend Edition" - has written a short, tender book about the two most important people in the world. At least to him. "Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other" recounts the arrival of his two daughters, Elise and Lina, from China, while telling the stories of other families changed by adoption. Simon describes himself as skeptical of transcendence but as taking part in a miracle. "My wife and I," he says, "knew that Elise and Lina were our babies from the moment we received their postage- stamp portraits. Logically, I know that's not possible. But I also know that's how my heart, mind and body ... reacted to their pictures. ... I would take the photo out of my wallet in the weeks before we left to get each of our girls and hold it against my lips t...
Editor's note: Beginning today, the TH will follow the adoption of Erica Yao Ling, a baby girl from China, by the Jordon family of Dubuque. Subsequent stories will cover her arrival in Dubuque, her first week with her new family and other milestones, ending with a one- year "checkback" on the family in 2006.
SCOTT SIMON - the sonorous voice of NPR's "Weekend Edition" - has written a short, tender book about the two most important people in the world. At least to him. "Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other" recounts the arrival of his two daughters, Elise and Lina, from China, while telling the stories of other families changed by adoption. Simon describes himself as skeptical of transcendence but as taking part in a miracle. "My wife and I," he says, "knew that Elise and Lina were our babies from the moment we received their postage- stamp portraits. Logically, I know that's not possible. But I also know that's how my heart, mind and body ... reacted to their pictures. ... I would take the photo out of my wallet in the weeks before we left to get each of our girls and hold it against my lips t...
Since Jan. 1, hundreds of adopted adults have been able to see their own birth certificates and learn the names of their birth parents for the first time. This has resulted in hundreds of different stories, as this small, bureaucratic step has played out in real people's lives.
Let's continue the subject of adoption in this weeks' column. By sharing personal stories of the dogs I've adopted, hopefully you will be encouraged to visit our local shelters. My "best friends" were either strays or shelter adoptees. The joy and happiness these animals have brought to my life is indescribable. With the exception of adoption fees, there wasn't a dime paid for this happiness. You too can find your "forever best friend" at a shelter. Please save a life.
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