Spring

Spring has sprung with so much coming to life in my life this year. I have started a blog: http:// birthmotherofadopted.blogspot.com
This site is where I hope to share my experience as a birthmother and be of some help, comfort, inspiration, or simply commiseration for others who have been touched by the whole surrender/adoption scenario.
I am in the process of 'rewriting' my manuscript The Empty Chair. This novel is based on my true story. Like my hopes for my blog birthmotherofadopted.blogspot.com, I am very much in hopes to reach an audience touched by surrender/adoption. It is my belief that in reading my story, the reader will come away with either a new and deeper understanding; or, they will be comforted by hearing 'their story' lived by another. Misery likes company? Perhaps. But my story involves a whole lot more of the pie than the slice of misery. It is my wish that others who are suffering in similiar circumstances might take heart in that the misery is just one of the slices out of the whole pie of their life.
Of all my writing, this manuscript, and now my new blog, are by far the most important to me. Why? Does it change anything in my real surrender/adoption story? No. But it is terribly important to me to be able to offer a sharing of this experience that will somehow help those who live in a similiar 'silent' world that I lived in. We birthmothers all to often simply don't talk about it. Big mistake. We need to talk about it, for our own health, yes but just as importantly, for the good health of others.
So please, go on over and check it out. http:// birthmotherofadopted.blogspot.com . Leave some comments. Send friends over. Help me form a community where it is needed. Thank you and God bless you all.
SueB