This post began as a reply to a comment from Gershom on yesterday’s post.
I didn’t mean to accuse Gershom of ignoring the suffering of children, but to point out this as one of the reasons for my strong advocacy.
Of course families can be “adopted”, and if everyone who could supported just one other than their [...]
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Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Cambodia, Entitled to opinions, Family, International Adoption, NaBloPoMo, WTF?, Writing for a living, tagged , abuse, Adoption.com on November 30, 2007 | 55 Comments »
Funny how things work out. At the beginning of this month when I started the whole NaBloPoMo thing, I would not have suspected November would end up with an obscenity of the XXX variety, but it has.
It seems that budget constraints and an abrupt shift in editorial policy, or something, has prompted Adoption.com, one of [...]
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Anyone who reads my pro blogs with any regularity … avec their morning dose of prune juice, for example … has sensed that I am not terribly keen on the United Nations.
My International Adoption blog features an entire category dedicated to taking the UNavailing organization to task and encouraging folks to look forward to [...]
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The power has been out almost all day here today, so I’ve been racing to get my pro blogs written and posted while I can and hoping something would slosh over to this one so my NaBloPoMo thing gets done.
I could write about our Thanksgiving that wasn’t or the fact that it’s Friday again already [...]
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My house sits on some of the oldest dirt on the planet.
Yep.
I’m not talking about the grit behind my fridge; although that has been there a while, it’s nothing compared to the soil, pebbles and boulders that make up the island of Mahé and the 39 or so other inner islands of Seychelles.
Mahé, Praslin, [...]
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I must be seriously out of my ever-lovin’ mind, but I’m thinking about starting up another blog once this whole NaBloPoMo business is finished for the year. This one is good for a lot of release and stuff of interest (to me), but doesn’t focus, and my pro blogs are all about adoption, a topic [...]
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There was a boat bopping around Isle Therese the other day … I watched it for a while from my veranda … a big, white, sleek thing with a helicopter pad on the back complete with helicopter.
Now, thought I, isn’t that exactly what everyone needs? A big white mutha of a well-slung vessel complete [...]
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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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An article in the LA Times about Christian groups launching a “massive adoption campaign” is getting buzz, and because the report features a fifty-four year-old who’s now feeling as though he is “supposed” to bring kids into his family even though he’s feeling old and gray, I tried to get away with posting this on [...]
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Due to popular demand, this post has moved to the International Adoption Blog.
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