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New Video: Why I Wrote “Blind in One Eye”
Posted on April 1st, 2013 by David R. Ford
In this new video, I talk about my reasons for writing Blind in One Eye, and about learning to see the realities — and possibilities — in the story that enveloped me when I began to look for my birth family: http://player.vimeo.com/video/61574128
New Video: Revealing Stories from “Blind in One Eye”
Posted on March 31st, 2013 by David R. Ford
Here’s a new video in which I discuss two of the stories from Blind in One Eye that reveal a lot about what it would have been like to grow up with my birth family: http://player.vimeo.com/video/61574127
New Video: Looking for, and Being Found by, My Birth Family
Posted on March 30th, 2013 by David R. Ford
In this new video from my friends at Mind&Media, I talk about being spurred to look for the brother I’d never met — and being found by a sister I didn’t know I had: http://player.vimeo.com/video/61574129
A Fantasy Brother
Posted on April 1st, 2011 by David R. Ford
My adoptive parents were open with me about my adoption from the earliest time that I could understand the concept. Maybe because Mom and Dad were wonderful parents, I had no particular interest in learning about my birth parents while I was a kid. In fact, my only real interest was in some day finding the seven-year-older brother who was being raised by my birth parents.
Adopted? Interested in Adoption? I’ve Got a Story for You!
Posted on March 17th, 2011 by David R. Ford
I started writing Blind in One Eye: A Story About Seeing the Possibilities just so that I could keep the memories of my search for my adoption history in one place. By the time I’d finished, though, the book had a bigger purpose for me. Yes, I do tell the startling details of finding my secretive birth family—and it’s a story in which I’m very happy to have played a role.