Posted in Children, Family, Seychelles, Writing for a living on July 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
As promised, here are a few photos from the launch party. You can see how involved the kids were in the event by the fact that they are in the press shots like the one where I’m giving a book to the Minister of Education.
Sam signed every book I did and would say “Next!” when [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Children, Family, Older women, Uncategorized, tagged monogamy, primates 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 [...]
Posted in Children, Family, Fun, International Adoption, Island life, Seychelles, tagged Jaws, Spielberg on February 25, 2008 | 8 Comments »
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 [...]
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. [...]
Posted in Cambodia, Children, International Adoption, WTF? on February 15, 2008 | 7 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Adoption, Cambodia, Celebrities, Children, International Adoption, The United Nations, tagged Ban Ki-moon, George Clooney, Sudan on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Cambodia, Children, tagged Al-Qaeda, BBC, Gaza on February 7, 2008 | No Comments »
A couple of items in the news recently have me lingering on the edge of despair, wondering if there is any hope at all for a world fit to live in.
First was a report I caught the end of on the BBC about how children in Gaza were handing out sweets in celebration of the [...]
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