The Gift Best Given: A Memoir

(May 2020)

A story of adoption, search, discovery and reunion, The Gift Best Given: A Memoir tells of the author's late adulthood search for the woman who had placed him for adoption at the time of his birth. It intertwines the details of the author's search and the unexpected discoveries revealed during the course of his journey, the most surprising of which was that his mother had been a celebrity performer in the ice skating spectaculars of the 1940s until she found herself single and unexpectedly pregnant.

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Gliding Through Goodbye​

(June 2025)

​Gliding Through Goodbye is a story of a mother's love for her child and the pain of letting him go. It was inspired by a sheaf of notes hand-written by his first mother before her passing and informed by interviews and research conducted by the author with other mothers of the era who had also relinquished children for adoption. Gliding Through Goodbye recreates his mother's diary in the years following her relinquishing him for adoption. It follows her across the United States, the Caribbean, South America and Europe and relates both her physical travels as well as her emotional journey.

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