Why I write
What a day, what a day, what a day…
By Joy A. Kennelly
Tonight I’m hungry, lonely and tired. Not a good time to write, but I feel like expressing myself. These are the times I miss having a boyfriend and especially a husband.
I’ve just accomplished a lot for a client today, booked my next South Bay Professional Connection event with great musical talent and [...]
Valentine’s Day and love is in the air
By Joy A. Kennelly
I’ve had a love/hate relationship with this holiday. Oftentimes planning singles events and parties for all my friends to attend. Sometimes heartbroken. Sometimes happy. Sometimes content.
This year I decided to celebrate and send all my family little love gifts. I found the cutest toys for some of my nieces and son at [...]
Just to clarify on my adoption position now…
By Joy A. Kennelly
Just to make sure you all realize, I spoke before that audience on Capitol Hill back in 2001. I was also living and working with Rose Vista close to then too. I lived there first and then helped them publicize themselves later. I also counseled pregnant women who were curious about adoption.
My [...]
Rose Vista, the maternity home I used to live in…
By Joy A. Kennelly
It was sad to me to hear that this maternity home closed because I had some good memories there. Here’s one of the press releases I had sent out on behalf of one of their fund-raisers back in the good ole days…
CONTACT: Jane Bright, Executive Director
ROSE VISTA MATERNITY HOME
310 915-1179
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ROSE [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Three months after my speech, a 8.6 million grant to promote adoption awareness…
Grants to Promote Adoption Awareness.
Announcement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
October 15, 2001
For Immediate Release
Contact: ACF Press Office
(202) 401-9215
[...]
Adoption vs. single mothering – either choice is difficult…
By Joy A. Kennelly
Since my Typepad blog, Pure, Unadulterated Joy is acting up (which really bums me out because it’s thrown away hours of my writing with whatever glitch or hacking is going on), I thought I’d pop over to my other blogs and spread the love.
I’ve not wanted to share this, but feel the [...]
The Pregnant Pause – what was it? Why now?
By Joy A. Kennelly
I like the idea that grass reflects renewal, fresh growth, and a metaphor for new ideas pushing through people’s misconceptions of who and what a birthmother is. That’s why I’ve started this blog.
I am a birthmother. I have a nine-year old son who doesn’t live with me, but with the adoptive couple [...]
Birthmothers sometimes get a bad rap
By Joy A. Kennelly
This is an excerpt from a much longer blog, but expresses the reasons why I feel it’s important to share my open adoption story. Not every birthmother is a drug addict, or whatever…
I wrote this August 5, 2007 after reading an adoption story in the LA Times. Not my truth, but the [...]
