HardCopy: Adoption Today Magazine

Right before I turned thirty, a job that I worked on in my rather small interior design firm had a job printed in Interiors and Sources. It was pretty cool, I have say, seeing my name in a real magazine. It helped with the trauma of turning thirty.. ugg..
But I had a new house, a decent “career” job, and I was expecting a sparkley engagement ring for the occasion..so thirty was ok.

On my next birthday, I turn 40.

That’s ten years heavier than thirty. More weight of life, gravity laying time to skin elasticity, yet so much more blessed, and my purpose feels surier.
It’s still pretty cool seeing my name in a real magazine. Perhaps a sense of accomplishment shall permeate in through the turning of fourty. Might make this less trumatic.

I think it’s a decent article. I welcomed the opportunity to contribute and I hope perhaps it will garner new understanding by some outside our internet existance here.

This is the direct link to Adoption Today. This one takes you to the current issue on line. It seems to take a bit to load up.
And this should go right to the actual article.

I yelled to Garin at the end of his band practice today that he was in a real national magazine. He got all excited for a hot minute since he thought that it was for his band. Once he saw that it was for my stuff, his interested faded to utter disgust.
So it’s unimpressive to teenage males, but for me…yeah, it’s pretty cool.

About the Author

Claudia Corrigan DArcy
Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy has been online and involved in the adoption community since early in 2001. Blogging since 2005, her website Musings of the Lame has become a much needed road map for many mothers who relinquished, adoptees who long to be heard, and adoptive parents who seek understanding. She is also an activist and avid supporter of Adoptee Rights and fights for nationwide birth certificate access for all adoptees with the Adoptee Rights Coalition. Besides here on Musings of the Lame, her writings on adoption issue have been published in The New York Times, BlogHer, Divine Caroline, Adoption Today Magazine, Adoption Constellation Magazine, Adopt-a-tude.com, Lost Mothers, Grown in my Heart, Adoption Voice Magazine, and many others. She has been interviewed by Dan Rather, Montel Williams and appeared on Huffington Post regarding adoption as well as presented at various adoption conferences, other radio and print interviews over the years. She resides in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband, Rye, children, and various pets.

4 Comments on "HardCopy: Adoption Today Magazine"

  1. the article link does not work

    kt

  2. The middle on doesn’t seem to do squat, but the last one does. The Article is on page 24/25 to keep it simple.

  3. congrats on getting published, but i must ask: did the magazine insist, that you denigrate yourself by calling yourself an incubator for this article?

    somehow i thought that you, Claud, considered yourself to be Max’s mother, not just a walking uterus (i.e. “birth mother”) who produced him for his “true parents” 🙁

    it is just very disappointing to see a “sister” use this term for herself, one whom i thought understood how derogatory it was.

    it puts down all of us.

  4. Very cool, Claud (once I figured out how to turn the pages. I’m a bit dense that way)

    Ah, the language police, constantly vigilant and poised to chastise. Rust never sleeps.

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