A little slice of island life

Tomorrow is the last of the June holidays in Seychelles … June being THE month for them with a total of three days dedicated to the celebration of political events and one religious day off … the 29th of June, Independence Day.
On the day in 1976 the British lowered their flag, folded it up, and [...]

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Trainers for tots?

A weekend just came and went, and although I spent far too much time in front of the computer, the rest of my family was out and about in big ways.
Mark is clearing the lower bit of our land, so was up and down the hill like so many monkeys jumping on a bed, toting [...]

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What’s ugly? Well …

Beauty … in the eye of the beholder, right?
As Oscar Wilde said, “No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.” But to be fair, he did also say, “It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be [...]

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Cambodian news links

The week’s Cambodian news is up. Here are the links:
http://international.adoptionblogs.com/index.php/weblogs/cambodian-news-angelina-monoculture-rice
http://international.adoptionblogs.com/index.php/weblogs/cambodian-news-donors-dollars-bones-that

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Her own worst enemy … and that’s saying something

Amazing as it may seem, Mirah Riben … rabid anti-adoption nut and casual acquaintance of the written word … continues to shoot herself in the foot in forums as public as she can manage to corner for flaunting her ignorance and narrow agenda that consists of sour grapes and disregard for the fate of children [...]

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Politics near and far

A victim of my own success, I’ve now got the new blog gig over on the pro blog site I work for, Adoption.com, and am a bit busier than I like to be.
Don’t get me wrong; I like the work and enjoy having such a huge platform from which I can point out the idiocy [...]

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Backfire can be a bitch

This blog might begin to show signs of neglect for a while, as I’ve just taken on a new pro blog at Adoption.com covering news from the adoption world.
This came about as a direct result of the slur campaign Mirah Riben and cohorts conducted in reaction to my post shredding a piece of trash she [...]

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Harboring Resentments

I’m thinking about words today, these flitting little finches of communication that roost wherever they can safely alight, hanging on for as much time as needed to accomplish a purpose, then scattering in the breeze only to re-form later in a different version of the flock.
Yes, in an effort to find an extra something gentle [...]

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Popular Demand

Two recent Paradise Preoccupied posts, “When crap is just crap”, and “Trash adoption, sell a book”, have been so popular that they’ve moved to one of my pro blog sites, the International Adopt Blog at Adoptionblogs.com.
Although the comments posted here stay put, you can read the posts, which have had just a tiny bit of [...]

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Paris Hilton = Brain Death … be afraid!

I am APPALLED!
Really, folks … can some please tell me WHAT IN THE HELL is going on in America these days?
When today’s perusal of the newsal pops up with this … the Huff Post’s report on Paris Hiltons’ failure to pitch a hissy grand enough to keep her out of jail … what can possibly [...]

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