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Nicole J. Burton

Nov 21, 20091 min read

Expose Emotional Silence So Wounds Can Heal

I'm moderating a literary panel on "Darkness and Light" tomorrow at the Mishkan Torah Synagogue Book Fair. I think this statement,...

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Nicole J. Burton

Oct 5, 20091 min read

Adoption Videos: We are the Witnesses

Adoption videos are hitting YouTube like crazy. Not just personal video stories but professionally produced videos about adoption reform....

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Nicole J. Burton

Sep 7, 20091 min read

Open Adoption

Here's a thoughtful post about open adoption, which is adoption best practice: http://tinyurl.com/nts3qm Happy Labor Day!s.

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Nicole J. Burton

Jul 29, 20091 min read

The Girls Who Went Away

I don't know where my mother went when she was pregnant with me. She was 23, as was my father; they'd gone to high school together. She'd...

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Nicole J. Burton

Apr 14, 20091 min read

Adoption and Trust

Trust is a huge issue for all of us in the adoption constellation. Adoptive parents must trust that their children will accept them as...

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Nicole J. Burton

Mar 3, 20091 min read

The Memoirist's Dilemma

It's one thing to reveal our own lives and feelings, yet another to do the same for our loved ones. In publishing Swimming Up the Sun,...

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Nicole J. Burton

Dec 29, 20081 min read

Birthfathers Grieve Too

Detroit filmmaker Joan Mandell recalled shooting the stories of birth mothers and fathers as part of a campaign to help teens become more...

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Nicole J. Burton

Nov 11, 20081 min read

Adoption Today

I've been making the rounds of local adoption agencies and adoption counselling organizations: CASE, Adoptions Together, and the Barker...

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Nicole J. Burton

Sep 30, 20081 min read

Upcoming Events

I've got a busy Fall schedule of events and would love to see you at any of them. First up is an author signing at Borders Books in...

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Nicole J. Burton

Aug 31, 20081 min read

My Adoption Order

I visited my Adoption Order many times growing up. My father kept in his bureau drawer along with the passports. (It's amended here to...

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Nicole J. Burton

Aug 12, 20081 min read

The Publishing Game, Part 1

I really like Seth Godin's Advice to Authors regarding publishing. My printer, Lightning Source, is great to work with. They're owned by...

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Nicole J. Burton

Jul 16, 20081 min read

"Speaking of Adoption" Radio Interview

Listen on the Web to my interview on Tuesday, July 22, 2:00-3:00PM ET on "Speaking of Adoption" with Donna Montalbano. Rhode Island's...

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Nicole J. Burton

Jun 28, 20081 min read

American Adoption Congress in 2009

The American Adoption Congress 30th Annual Conference is in Cleveland, Ohio next year on April 22-25, 2009. If you're in the adoption...

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Nicole J. Burton

Jun 25, 20081 min read

Company on the Trail

In publishing Swimming Up the Sun, I often hear from people who want to search for family members. Perhaps they've tried, and it didn't...

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Nicole J. Burton

Jun 21, 20081 min read

Making Room in Our Hearts by Micky Duxbury

As an person raised under closed adoption, I never knew openness of the kind Micky Duxbury writes about in Making Room in Our Hearts. I...

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Nicole J. Burton

Jun 17, 20081 min read

We're Not Blank Slates - We Remember

I often write about memory. My play-in-progress, FRED AND FRIEDA, is about a Holocaust survivor who suppressed her memories and now wants...

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Nicole J. Burton

Jun 15, 20081 min read

Author Signing at Bethany Beach, DE

I'll be signing copies of Swimming Up the Sun at Bethany Books, 99 Garfield Parkway, Bethany Beach, DE on Tuesday, June 24, at 7PM. Do...

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Nicole J. Burton

Apr 8, 20081 min read

Swimming Up the Sun Events

I'll be reading and signing books at The Book Nook Bookstore, a new bookstore in Hyattsville, Maryland on Saturday, April 19, 1:30 - 3:00...

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Nicole J. Burton

Apr 6, 20081 min read

Adoption in the Global Community

This was the theme of the phenomenal American Adoption Congress conference I attended last month in Portland, Oregon. The biggest...

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Nicole J. Burton

Mar 18, 20081 min read

Swimming Up the Sun just published

Swimming Up the Sun is now available for purchase at amazon.com!

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