It’s no surprise that the adoption world is easily offended when babies are used as props, since a good part of the debate that fumes mightily has everything to do with children posed as possessions to be wrangled over. But it could be argued that kids are not only “property” in the yours, mine and [...]
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Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Adoption News, Celebrities, Celebs, Fun, International Adoption, Older Parent Adoption, tagged Steven Wright, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, George Washington Carver, Aristotle on January 3, 2008 | 19 Comments »
“My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.”
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The day the music died may have been in 1959, but twenty-seven years ago today the world lost not only one of the most brilliant and creative musical minds in modern history, but a bit of its soul and a lot of its conscience.
December 8, 1980 was the day Mark Chapman shot and killed John [...]
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Posted in American thoughts, Celebrities, Celebs, Expat Living, NaBloPoMo, The USA from the outside in, tagged OJ Simpson, Nicole Brown Simpson, 2000 presidential election, Reality TV, Iraq war on November 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It’s a big dividing point between American expats as far as maintaining a capacity to take in and digest present day events in the country, the 12th of June 1994.
You are forgiven if the date doesn’t set bells clanging, as events of the day easily float to the bottom of the cesspool that started filling [...]
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There are topics arrayed before me like so many tubs of ice cream at a Ben & Jerry’s, some even looking as potentially tasty as Chunky Monkey, but I haven’t the energy to dip.
You see, I’ve already written almost 2000 bloggity blog words … 1,811 to be precise… on three blogs, and although I [...]
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Before attending to anything else today, before a word is written on any of my pro blogs, before I work out, shower, dress, before I do a thing other than get my kids off to school, I have to make a confession …
I hate mime.
From my days as a young child, I’ve hated mime. [...]
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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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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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I can remember where I was the first time I saw and heard Sgt. Pepper. I’m not going into any detail about stances … neither circum nor sub … but I’ll admit to a drummer named Charlie and some really pretty colors that drifted around as “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” premiered in my [...]
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My brilliant and talented niece has a piece in today’s Huff Post that jives with a note I’ve had on my desktop for a couple of days, proving something about family … or not … and prompting me to write about Carl Bernstein.
Her post in the Post covers Berntein’s new ‘must read’, “A Woman [...]
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