Author Archives: Jeffrey Wes Unruh

My existence, the life I led, was set in motion by an original trauma, intentionally inflicted on my real mother and myself. I learned that my real mother wanted to keep me but was dissuaded from doing so by her church in the final weeks before I was born. She’d worked overtime for months to […]

I’ve gotten all the puzzle pieces. There’s a lot I’ve got to make sense of… but I have all the pieces. The struggle just to put together the story of my birth has been exhausting, and the mental discipline to process everything is grueling. I intend to survive this process, and put the story together […]

I’m in a period of time that is often called a “reunion” – but I find the term itself complicated. The people I’ve met are all disconnected from the event of adoption, most of them were not alive at the time I was taken. I’ve met my younger sisters, on both my biological father’s side […]

I was set adrift on my posting schedule by an unexpected discovery, and a period of deep reflection. I’ll be posting again more regularly, and less cryptically.

“Plain clarity is better than ornate obscurity.” “Some authors overdo the stage directions; they elaborate them quite beyond necessity; they spend so much time & take up so much room in telling us how a person said a thing and how he looked and acted when he said it that we get tired and wish […]