Author Archives: JulienneTravis

When faced with the opportunity to reach out to family after an adoption, what do you think is the right thing to do? Ignore the urge to maintain their privacy? Or contact them and give them the choice?

Search under adoption or by title name. This new book is available as a Kindle e-book or paperback! It is titled Alice: The Story of How I Met my Biological Parents. In this story, you will find details on a once-in-a-lifetime discovery. The reader will be on my shoulder when I meet my parents forContinue reading “The full story is now available on Amazon!”

The day I got my DNA test results back, I was nervous to open them. I was mostly worried about the three big genetic tests for which they offer counseling should they be positive. Man, the thought went through my head that I might need a mastectomy if I had the BRCA1 gene. Thank goodnessContinue reading “Nervous to look”

This is truly an odd phenomenon in our culture, but modern medicine has opened up so many possibilities- both positive and negative. I wasn’t sure if we should worry about privacy down the road. I heard some saying to be careful because of insurance coverage. Regardless, based on the hundreds of questions they ask youContinue reading “Taking a DNA test”

But I behaved better than my inner self really wanted to because I thought I could be given back. I wasn’t really mature enough until college to want to know my parents. I think it had to do with not knowing anyone who was related to me in this world and figuring out who IContinue reading “When I was a child, I was told I was adopted at a young age.”