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Discovery: I Still Have a Purpose

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Laura Orsini

Discovery: I Still Have a Purpose by Beth Kozan It was kind of a chance encounter, my interview with a social worker from hospice to see which programs Elliot might qualify for. After I’d answered just a few questions, the … Continue reading →

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Dear Anne

Posted on September 3, 2017 by Laura Orsini

Dear Anne by Beth Kozan Note from the author: I wrote to an adoptee whose online column had raised issues about her early life. Dear Anne, I’m awake at 3 a.m., unable to sleep. I keep remembering your thoughts as … Continue reading →

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Recognizing Loss on Birth Mothers’ Day

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Laura Orsini

Recognizing Loss on Birth Mothers’ Day by Beth Kozan In the late 1980s (so the legend goes), a group of birth mothers who had been meeting for support regularly in Seattle declared a holiday for birth mothers (a woman who … Continue reading →

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Reviewing “Shar’s Story”

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Laura Orsini

Reviewing Shar’s Story by Beth Kozan I guess it shouldn’t have surprised me when, in 1993, my supervisor told me she is a birth mother. Three times at that first adoption agency I worked for, I was told by a … Continue reading →

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My Passion for Adoption

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Laura Orsini

My Passion for Adoption by Beth Kozan After a 30-year career in adoptions, I was interviewed for a job to become the director of adoptions where I worked. I was asked if I wanted to go further up the chain … Continue reading →

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More Tales from the Tailgate

Posted on July 3, 2016 by Laura Orsini

More Tales from the Tailgate by Beth Kozan Last month for my blog piece (published on the 3rd of June 2016), I wrote about the baby who was born in my Subaru on the way to the hospital. I ended … Continue reading →

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Tales from the Tailgate

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Laura Orsini

Tales from the Tailgate by Beth Kozan  As I prepared last week to sell my 2006 Subaru Forester (Mileage: 148,268) I thought back over how much that Subaru has meant to me in my career in adoption. Put down the … Continue reading →

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Life Intervened

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Laura Orsini

Life Intervened by Beth Kozan I’m writing this on Sunday evening, January 31. The previously silent house where I would write this blog piece is suddenly active. A rain storm blew in, and the windows howled in reaction to the … Continue reading →

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“There Are No Accidents” – Another Title that Meant a Lot to Me

Posted on December 3, 2015 by Laura Orsini

“There Are No Accidents” – Another Title that Meant a Lot to Me by Beth Kozan This is Amazon’s synopsis of There Are No Accidents. I didn’t know it when I read it (and author Robert H. Hopcke still doesn’t), … Continue reading →

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First Mother’s Day

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Laura Orsini

First Mother’s Day by Beth Kozan  Mommy, what was it like the day I was born? Oh, little one, the sun was shining and oleanders were in bloom. The world was crisp and new. Mommy, what was it like on … Continue reading →

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