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 Family, Older women, Seychelles, Writing for a living on July 13, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The banner went up last week to prompt sales of my book. It just happens to hang at an intersection Mark has to drive by at least 4 times a day.
Photos from the book launch party Friday evening will be posted soon. It was a wonderful event, and I’m hanging on to the boost it [...]
Posted in Family, Island life, Seychelles, Writing for a living, tagged "Papaya ... and other seeds" on June 16, 2008 | 16 Comments »
A year ago last April, Paradise Preoccupied was born. It came about as a spill over from all the stuff I wasn’t allowed to write about on adoption dot com, much considered “off topic” … some of which actually was … and the frustration I felt as being so stifled.
Life was so much different all [...]
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 Family, Older women, On getting older, tagged guilt, unfaithful husbands 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 [...]
Posted in Family, Island life, tagged unfaithful husbands 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 [...]
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 Family, Island life, On getting older, tagged Friends 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 [...]
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 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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