Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Children, Family, International Adoption, Older Parent Adoption, Older women, orphans, tagged unfaithful husbands, infidelity, healing on June 1, 2008 | 17 Comments »
I must be beginning to heal … or, at least for today I’ve managed to work up a good head of indignation at the betrayal that has brought the end of my marriage.
One reason for breaking our family, out of the very few that my husband has managed to share with me, is that I [...]
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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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Steven Spielberg pretty much ruined the sea for me … a fact I have brought up with him on more than one occasion, and one for which he is not nearly as regretful as he should be … so I was more than thrilled when today I showed Sam the dorsal fin of a baby [...]
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Posted in Adoption, Children, International Adoption, The USA from the outside in, World politics, orphans, tagged Africa, AIDS, GW Bush, Mugabe, orphans, PEPFAR, Zimbabwe on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve just read the most confounding bit of news I’ve seen in a while, and in a source that usually delivers it straight up, making it even more confusing.
It’s this article in the Washington Post that sent me scurrying all over the Internet in search of corroboration and reason.
The story is about George W. [...]
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No, I’m not harkening back to the flap last year that had tacky t-shirts emblazoned with the what was either cleverly hip or cynically horrid “Adoption: the New Black”, but rather the REAL New Black, which is black.
Yep. Black: The New Black.
Blacker than black, this new black is amazingly cool to a science geek wannabe [...]
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The weekly wrap of news from Cambodia has been moved to Under One Roof, and this week’s is here.
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There is, reportedly, a new a popular new pastime for 18- to 20-year-old northern European men that is catching on and has many deciding to see more of the world, unfortunately; they are Asia’s new pedophiles.
There is a virtual invasion by northern European men aged 18 to 20 whose arrival has expanded the pedophilia [...]
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After posting yesterday on Chinese-made choking hazards in the shape of toys in really, really, really bad taste, this story out of Britain provides another.
British Olympic chiefs are to force athletes to sign a contract promising not to speak out about China’s appalling human rights record – or face being banned from travelling to Beijing.
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>The Internet was out all day today, so I’m far behind on way too much work and playing catch-up (ketchup?) tonight.
Had a meeting in town today … so at least had something constructive to do with the time I would have been working … and also needed to do some shopping, as a friend’s little [...]
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Getting back to the tens of millions of dollars the UN has wasted in Sudan that I mentioned yesterday, but had neither the time nor the stomach for, I find it more than a tad disingenuous that the same day this story came out in the Washington Post, the “UN News Centre” had only this [...]
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