Taking the “tit” out of titillation

What is it with Americans and boobs?
I just finished posting a blog on the Adoption News page that included a bit from ABC on how some people view breast feeding in public.
Holy Victoriana, Boobman!
Four … count ‘em FOUR … US states have laws on their books that make it illegal for a mother to [...]

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The First Cut is the Deepest Dot Com

If you’ve clicked here from the post on the Apoption News Blog looking for a support group for adult C-section-birthed persons or C-section-delivered mothers, I have to ask:
Did you honestly think such groups exist? That’s really scary, you know.
What is next? Groups of pissed off adult water-birthed persons? Angry women who wanted a saddle [...]

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There goes the neighborhood …

Bill Gates is moving into my neighborhood.
Yep, the quiet, sleepy confines of the part of this island I call home is undergoing some huge, noisy and ugly changes, and there are billionaires’ fingerprints all over it.
Hardly a day passes without me being jolted out of contemplative blog-writing revelry by a blast of dynamite shattering granite [...]

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Cambodian news links

For parents of Cambodian-born kids, or anyone interested in what’s up in Cam, this week’s wrap of the news from Cambodia has been posted on the International Adoption Blog.

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Granny marries youngster … but is that the story?

If you don’t already know this, I’ll share that one of the pro blogs I write is on the topic of adopting as an older parent.
Since I’m about to turn fifty-six and have a 4.75-year-old and a 2-year-old, I’m qualified to write about being a geezer mom. I try very hard not to make that [...]

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How to be a girl … in England: Yikes!

As regular readers know, my adored husband is a half-Brit, which is not the same as a half-wit, but not totally unrelated.
Yes, that’s extremely unkind and so veddy-veddy not PC, but Hey!, some things just must be said.
Mark was born in England and passed some of his childhood there, but most of his growing was [...]

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Cam news update: All sorts of snakes

The weekly update of news from Cambodia is posted here.

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As if I don’t have enough work on …

If you’re wondering why the previous post, the creative writing challenge, exists … well, you have good reason to wonder right along with me. I certainly do have enough work on, and just the thought of adding to my ‘to do’ list sets my fingers into spasm.
This, however, popped out like giggle.
The rules were that [...]

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Answers.com creative writing challenge entry

Hiking across an island with Norman is always more of an adventure than it should be. Completely and understandably dedicated to a case of melissophobia arising from an encounter on a lump of land in the Indian Ocean with about 13,000 African bees that should well have killed him, what should for all intents and [...]

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Just Ducky

I’ve just written a three-part rant over on the International Adoption Blog and need to download a bit of tension before I get down to the serious business of a Sunday … that would be napping, then off to the beach for a while with Mark and the kids … so thought I’d take the [...]

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