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Archive for May, 2008

Consuming Grief

Posted in Family, Older women, On getting older, tagged , on May 25, 2008 | 19 Comments »

 
 
It isn’t simply that I am eating misery, and little else, for breakfast, lunch and dinner these days, but also that it is eating me.
 
From the moment I gain consciousness in the morning, the awareness that the fact that the life I had been living so happily is over, gone for good, forces itself down [...]

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The FWWPH

Posted in Family, Island life, tagged on May 10, 2008 | 15 Comments »

Being an activist and a “take charge” kind of woman, a lunch yesterday with two of my friends here has me fired up and chomping at the bit to get something going.
 
Both of these woman are beautiful, funny, talented, dedicated woman, and both are married to men who screw around … a lot. Their husband’s [...]

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Perspective on misery

Posted in Adoption, Cambodia, Children, Family, Island life, Uncategorized on May 9, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Readers now know the past few months have had me in a personal hell that I’m finding very difficult to rise above, to move along, to get myself back into life and seeing colors again.
Food, sleep, concentrated thought, energy of anything but the nervous type escape my abilities almost completely, and I’m perpetually frustrated by [...]

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Empathy can be positive, too

Posted in Family, Island life, On getting older, tagged on May 8, 2008 | 7 Comments »

 
While I’ve been spending the past two months in the Mark-induced horror of betrayal and deceit, others in my life have been experiencing such wonderful wonders of life, and although they are deeply sympathetic, they are not, thankfully, having their happiness dented in any way by my misery.
 
My dear friend, George, who is actually the [...]

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Earning the right to sex, and how others do it

Posted in Children, Family, Older women, Uncategorized, tagged , on May 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I’ve been trying to figure out a way forward for Paradise Preoccupied … and for much else in my life at the moment … and have been finding it hard to even compose a follow-up to my last post.
I do not want to turn this into a litany of Mark’s almost daily screw-ups and petty [...]

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It takes one to know one

Posted in Family, Island life on May 2, 2008 | 39 Comments »

There are at least a bazillion reasons I hate to admit what I’m about to admit, all but one having to do with a tragedy my family has been suffering, but it’s been two months today and time I got this out of the way and began to prepare to move through this crisis and [...]

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