Joanne Wolf Small asked: So, where do you go from here? The answer deserved a post of its own, though I’ll let Mike find his own voice in his own timing and post whatever he adds as a guest blog. First of all, we settle back in here at home after the trip Mike and […]

Yup, been busy, perhaps I’ll blog some of it at a later date. Meanwhile, here’s a brief note that we can add to the growing pile of C.A.R.E. abominations. *** Just go read B.B. Church’s latest piece-  C.A.R.E. Pays for Play? Also be sure to note, (particularly in light of in-kind donations and potentially jeopardizing […]

Ron’s been keeping a watchful eye on C.A.R.E. out in California and their latest nonsensical antics. His most recent post, What is Jean Strauss SMOKING???, does an excellent job of saying what must be said. Not surprisingly, considering some of the core of the folks behind the group, C.A.R.E. has falsely attributed the impetus behind […]

I’ve been writing pretty much since early on in this blog (at least November ’07 here) about what being “left behind and forgotten” means in practice in terms of myself personally. I’m one of Ohio’s Black Hole Bastards. I am one of an undetermined number of people, at least 150,000, adopted in Ohio between the […]

I suppose this could be considered another post following on the heels of my earlier, Being C.A.R.E.-less about adopted people’s access in CA and Bastard Access- either we all go together or we don’t go at all- “Nobody gets left behind. Or forgotten.” about the “California Adoption Reform Effort‘s botched from the get go attempt […]

If you believe the California Adoption Reform Effort, (or C.A.R.E.”) is going to gain full Bastard access to records in CA I’ve got a bridge to sell ya… . In C.A.R.E.’s case, apparently the Brooklyn Bridge, as they for a time, could not be bothered to even find a picture of a California landmark bridge, […]