The Gift Best Given: A Memoir

(May 2020)

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

​​​​

Gliding Through Goodbye​

(June 2025)

Gliding Through Goodbye is the emotional story of a mother's love for her newborn son and the pain of letting him go. Inspired by hand-written notes left by his birth mother before her passing and informed by research and interviews with other first mothers who had placed children for adoption during The Baby Scoop Era, the author has reimagined and recreated his birth mother‘s diary in the years after she had placed him for adoption. Following not only her physical travels as she returns to performing it relates her emotional journey as well.

​​

​​

 

​