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- What conclusions did you draw from your experience?
- What are the key personal attributes needed to do an adoption search?
- Why did you choose the title Adoption Detective
- What did you say after you said hello to your birth parents?
- What motivated you to search for your birth parents?
- How did you feel when you learned you were adopted?
- Who would benefit from reading Adoption Detective?
- What is unique about your adoption story?
- What do you remember most about your childhood?
- Why write a book about adoption?
- What is an adoption detective?
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- The Homing Instinct
- Wire Monkey Mothers
- BOOK CLUB REVIEW
- Why are “Abandoned Children” called Orphans?
- Children are Reminders from God that Life Goes On
- Adoption is Paradoxical
- Adoption is a Twist of Fate
- “A New Adoption Classic”
- Four Kinds of Adoption
- Adoption—Finding Solace
- Use the “Emotion Wheel” to get in Touch with Your Feelings
- Adoption—What is a soliloquy?
- Adoption Secrets
- Adoption and Uncanny Dreams
- Adopted—who’s pulling your strings?
- Adopted Child Syndrome verses Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Incredible Discoveries Await Curious Adoptees
- On Children
- Adoption and Conventional Wisdom
- Adoption Triggers Intense Feelings
- Adoption—Transcendence is Key to a Better Life
- Adoption Stories
- Adoption, Cursive Writing and Communication
- Adoption—The Vicissitudes of Life
- The 4th Side of the Adoption Triangle
- Adoption—Calming the Monkey Mind
- Adoption—Trauma and Dissociation
- Adoption—When things go utterly right…
- Adoption—Chasing a Rainbow
- Adoption—Time Waits for no One…
- Adults bamboozled me into believing in Santa Claus
- Adoption in Winter Wonderland
- Adoption—Paternal Bonding
- Adoption—Fighting for your Destiny
- Adoption—Time is the allegorical Father of Truth
- Adoption—What is the meaning of énouement?
- Adoption—How does it feel?
- Adoption – Street Smarts or Book Smarts?
- Adoption – The importance of Communication
- Adoption – Staying afloat
- Adoption—Life in a Snow Globe
- Adoption detectives help adoptees find their way home
- Adoption—The Extraordinary Power of Expectations
- Adoption—Striving for the Brass Ring
- Adoption-Children in Greenland were taken from their homes for a social experiment
- Adoption searches are not just for young people
- Adoption—Life as a Country Song
- Adoption—Harbor Lights
- “Adoption—Life is a Challenge”
- Adoption—Bubbles in Time
- The History of Adoption
- Adoption – The Sublime Confidence of Youth
- “Adoption—Blest Be the Tie That Binds”
- “Adoption—Infants remember more than you think”
- Similarities between Golf and Adoption
- Adoption—On a Wing and a Prayer
- Pets benefit adopted children…
- “You’re Adopted!”
- Adoption—“The Best of Times…the Worst of Times”
- Adoption—Self-discovery and Moral Character
- The Stigma of Adoption
- Adoption—Shadows of Ancestors Past
- Adoption—Individual Choice verses Collective Action
- “Woo Hoo!—I found my Grandparents.”
- Adoption—Its Pub Weather Today
- Adoption—Parents who live vicariously
- Empathy is more than a simple act of kindness, sympathy, prayer, or pity
- Adoption—Robinson Crusoe Syndrome
- “Adoption and Behavioral Foxhole Syndrome”
- “Adoption—A thousand reasons to be angry”
- Adoption—Are you burned out?
- “Adoption—An Affair of the Heart”
- Reactive Attachment Disorder – RAD
- “Adoption—Stowaway Orphan from Peru found in London train station”
- Adoption Detective—Judith Land Quotes
- Adoption—“Letting Go!”
- Adoption—“The Point of No Return”
- Adoption—Can you die from a broken heart?
- Adoption—How similar are you to your Mother?
- “Adoption—communicating with poems, songs and love letters”
- “Adoption—the exhilaration of accomplishing something extraordinary”
- “Adoption—Don’t be a worrywart!”
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Monthly Archives: December 2013
Adoption search—what’s in your piñata?
“Happy fifth of May—Cinco de Mayo” If you were separated from your birth parents or biological child and didn’t know where to find them, have you ever wished that everything you ever expected to find in your ceremonial cornerstone could be … Continue reading
Posted in Adoption, Life, Parenting, Relationships
Tagged ADOPTION, Adoption Detective, birth mother, Cinco de Mayo, Judith Land, piñata
2 Comments
Adoption—a clash between conscience and passion!
Adoption sparks our private passions and raises our consciousness at every stage of our lives. Attempts to rationalize our thoughts are characterized as a continuous struggle between conscience, logic and reason in favor of the passions of temptations. Adoption galvanizes … Continue reading
Posted in Adoption, Faith, Life, Parenting, Relationships
Tagged ADOPTION, Adoption Detective, birth mother, conscience, genealogical bewilderment, Judith Land, Judith Land Blog, passion, primal wound, self-image
10 Comments
Adoption—should I spy on my birth mother?
I was slowly coming to the realization that the origin of my life was more complex than an unsolved Rubik’s Cube. I had no idea why Rebecca Maier’s response to my question had been so mysterious and impenetrable when I asked … Continue reading
Posted in Adoption, Life, Parenting, Relationships
Tagged ADOPTION, Adoption Detective, Judith Land, life, self-identity
4 Comments
Adoption—your birth mother played the violin
My adopted mother Rosella was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Reaching out for sympathy and emotional support she had quietly stated, “There is something I want to tell you before I die. Your birth mother’s name was Becky, Rebecca, Roberta or … Continue reading
Posted in Adoption, Children, Life, Parenting
Tagged adopted mother, ADOPTION, Adoption Detective, birth mother, Judith Land
2 Comments
Adoption—chance encounters with biological family members!
“Innocuous chance encounters with biological family members fed my curiosity and strengthened my desire to know something about my genealogy. Over time, I became increasingly introspective about these incidents and wondered why our souls had collided somewhere along life’s trajectory … Continue reading
Posted in Adoption, Life, Parenting, Relationships
Tagged ADOPTION, Adoption Detective, halo effect, Judith Land, life's trajectory, self-identity
15 Comments
Adoption Detective: Memoir of an Adopted Child 
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