Dear Reader, There’s a groundswell of aging people empowered by recent revelations in Australia and Spain concerning unsavoury adoption practices that threatens an entire generation of birth mothers, ‘loving’ families, and ungrateful little bastards here in Canada. I am one of those bastards. The following lovely little scene is taken from something forming itself into…
Fight like a Donnelly!
Dear Reader, This tale cuts deep and close to the bone. A down and out adoptee, great father but lousy provider, victim of the man-cession, miserable failure in his eyes, packs up all his belongings and heads to a remote cabin. Enjoy, M. — “Noon, My arrival at Stop Log could have been pulled straight…
Fight like a Donnelly!
Dear Reader, This tale cuts deep and close to the bone. A down and out adoptee, great father but lousy provider, victim of the man-cession, miserable failure in his eyes, packs up all his belongings and heads to a remote cabin. Enjoy, M. — “Noon, My arrival at Stop Log could have been pulled straight…
Watching helplessly as cancer sucks the life out of my once vibrant wife – Your Mom
Boys, You know mommy was sick for quite a while. You are also aware that our family of four is now almost done, so … you deserve to know the reality behind those definitive days when I helplessly watched the woman I loved, your mom, the most vibrant, amazing woman in the world, get the…
Burn the Outcasts!
Originally posted on The Inmates of Willard 1870 to 1900 / A Genealogy Resource:
Since my book is based in genealogy, I couldn’t help but tie my English ancestors into the web of insanity and intolerance that occurred during the witch hunts of seventeenth century New England. This is the story of Rebecca Elson-Mudge-Greensmith, my eighth great-grandmother, who…
The Adopted & the Incarcerated
Originally posted on Transracialeyes:
I simply wish to pose the question: what links of solidarity do you discern regarding prejudice against the adopted and the incarcerated? By this, I do not intend to imply that a most adequate way to understand adoption occurs if we think about it in a metaphorical or literal way as…
The Ward, Toronto
The following article from an obscure local Toronto publication shaped my view of the Ghost Kingdom. The musings of Orwell and Lifton mash in the place known as The Ward where bastards, orphans and other social outcasts dwell. http://torontoist.com/2008/10/historicist_forgotten_urban_squalor_1/
Stolen babies and a kingdom of ghosts
When I first started writing something that would form itself into a screenplay I called Ghost Kingdom, I wanted to tell the story of a broken down adoptee pushed so close to the edge of the abyss so that he sought revenge. I would pit his anger against the devastation of a birth mother whose…
The Ghost Kingdom
The story of adoption is a ghost story, full of fantasy, mystery, and missing persons … Betty Jean Lifton Ph.D., Ghosts in the Adopted Family (2009) There’s a groundswell of aging people empowered by recent revelations of forced adoptions in Australia, Spain, Ireland and Canada. As the veil of secrecy is ripped away, anger is…
Blood, Water & Šljivovica: In the Shadows of the Ghost Kingdom 