NICOLE J. BURTON

Feeling better today. You know what helped? Pema Chodron's concept of Rootlessness. That most of us feel at one time or another a rootles...

What helped us overcome adoption trauma? How do we tell the truth about our experience and stay positive? How do we turn recovery into pu...

Miss "Cars" the first time around? Join us at the Kennedy Center for a ride through one man's automotive life and times. A Natural Histor...

A Natural History of My Husband's Cars (PDF) - 26 pages

Do you have a car story? Sure you do! Brigid Schulte wrote a great car story about her Volvo in the Post magazine last week. Tell us you...

Even as a young boy in Northern Virginia, Jim Landry always wanted to drive. Fascinated by cars, he began driving himself to piano lesson...

The American Adoption Congress Conference in 2008 was the first adoption conference I'd ever attended. I was swept away by the kindness a...

You don't hear people talk much about adoption and codependency but adoption can't survive without codependency. The role of the adopted ...

I told friends at a Hanukkah party on Sunday that I recently transitioned from adoption reformer to adoption abolitionist--they were shoc...

Six authors and national leaders from all sides of the Adoption Triad signed this op-ed. Please help us get it published in your local me...

Writing a memoir about adoption means I'm slowly coming out of the Adoption Closet. You might have thought that happened long ago but I'v...

If you don't have plans for Labor Day Weekend, please come to the readings of our plays at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing ...

The April 2010 production of FRED & FRIEDA at the Greenbelt Arts Center was a glorious success thanks to fabulous, sold-out audiences. Wa...

Beautiful Washington Information article by Malcolm Barnes about Black Holocaust liberator William S. Keyes and my new play. Check out th...

FRED & FRIEDA will premiere at the Greenbelt Arts Center on Thursday, April 15-18, 2010. Show times are Thursday, April 15 at 10:00 am, F...

That's how Fred Cephas in FRED & FRIEDA describes what he saw at Orhdruf concentration camp on April 4, 1945, when his 761st Tank Battali...

We write plays at home in the quiet of our offices. But even when we've finished writing, they're not born until we hand them to someone ...

Here's a video clip explaining why I wrote my play FRED & FRIEDA. Of course, there are a thousand other reasons but often a play begins...

Audition Notice Sheilah Crossley-Cox will direct Fred & Frieda, a new play by Nicole Burton, to be performed at the Greenbelt Arts Cente...

On Nov. 19, I spoke about adoption reunion at the Washington Ethical Society. They're a great group. The talk, posted on the archives, wa...