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Open Adoption Bloggers Roundtable #8: Influences

Published on October 21, 2009 By spyderkl

This OAB Roundtable is an interesting one: Write about a blogger (or bloggers) who influenced your real-life open adoption, and how. It might be someone who became an offline friend who supports and challenges you. Or a writer who makes you uncomfortable, but gets you thinking. Maybe a blogger who doesn’t even know you are [...]

What to say, and what not to say: OAB Roundtable #7

Published on October 3, 2009 By spyderkl

Heather has been crazy busy and has just posted the next prompt for this week’s Open Adoption Roundtable. It’s all about privacy vs. blogging your heart out (so to speak): This round’s topic was suggested by adoptive parent blogger Rebecca: privacy, blogging and open adoption. Figuring out boundaries is difficult when you write about your [...]

What’s in a Name? (OAB Roundtable #6)

Published on August 30, 2009 By spyderkl

The next roundtable prompt for the Open Adoption Bloggers webring is a “simple” one: Since the topic has been stirred up a bit and I’ve seen posts popping out here and there: Write about names/naming and open adoption. Just like with any other naming by parents, naming an adoptive child is a tough one. Everybody [...]

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (OAB Roundtable #5)

Published on August 16, 2009 By spyderkl

For the Open Adoption Bloggers Roundtable #5, Heather picked another tough question: How has open adoption changed you? In what ways are you different because the presence of open adoption in your life? I should say from the outset that ours hasn’t been the one-big-happy-family open adoption. We have had contact with School Girl’s father’s [...]

A Couple of Stories (OA Bloggers Roundtable #4)

Published on July 25, 2009 By spyderkl

This post is #4 of the Open Adoption Bloggers Roundtable series, started by Heather at her blog. If you’re interested, here are Roundtables 1, 2, and 3. Our writing prompt for this Roundtable was sharing a small moment made possible by our open-ish adoption. It’s something I’ve written about before, but I’d say this counts. [...]