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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3 December, 1942
We had an menorah on the farm that passed from mother to daughter for more than 150 years, a praxis I failed to follow. I did not forget it, there was simply no room.
Zelik remembers it in detail, and the holidays it centered those first five years. Gitla does not, and knows only [...]
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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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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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I have a political question for today:
Are folks in America as hot over the YouTube “debates” as they look to be from out here where CNN comes only in brief, but enthusiastic spurts?
I heard the hype leading up to the Democrats doing their version of “Who Do You Trust”, and now that it’s Republicans about [...]
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They’re doing well, Dinah’s puppies, and growing so fast I can almost see the size increase as it happens, especially around the belly. Dinah is a good mom and has been very attentive, but now that her brood is approaching 3 weeks of age she’s spending more and more time away from them.
Can’t say that [...]
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Ahhhh, Saturday. The weekend. The break between one work week and the next. A chance to … to … to what?
Around here, it’s a chance to play a game of Scrabble with Gay while the kids hang with dad in the garden, pitching in with the yard work … or pretending to … while a [...]
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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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I am thankful. I am SO thankful. I am really, really thankful.
I am thankful for my life, the fact that I have had one and that I still have one. The emergency heart surgery in Singapore in ‘99 was a close shave that puts me in mind every day of what a gift each [...]
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Posted in NaBloPoMo, Seychelles on November 21, 2007 | 3 Comments »
After a couple of days of posting fears and complaints about the direction this beautiful country is taking these days, I’d like to provide a link to a small, hopeful glimmer that has to do with people trying to hang on to some of the beauty of the country.
Here is a blog written by a [...]
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