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 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 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 NaBloPoMo, Older women, On getting older on November 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I don’t know if it’s a Boomer thing, an island thing, or just a thing with people I choose to have conversations with, but I don’t know anyone who lies about their age.
Okay, I don’t know any ADULTS who lie about their age. That is more accurate because I do occasionally run into the four-year-old [...]
Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Angelina Jolie, International Adoption, Island life, NaBloPoMo, Older women, On getting older, Younger men on November 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in NaBloPoMo, Older women, Younger men, tagged Huffington Post, Steve Santagati, women, CNN, men on November 6, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Who is this guy?
I’m other-side-of-the-planet out of the loop, so may possibly be forgiven for never, until today, having heard of Steve Santagati, but I’ve just come across a blog post by him on the Huff Post.
He was apparently on a CNN program I’ve also never heard of, Showbiz Tonight, talking about a magazine [...]
Posted in Adoption, Older women, On getting older, WTF?, Writing for a living, Younger men on July 11, 2007 | 3 Comments »
If you don’t already know this, I’ll share that one of the pro blogs I write is on the topic of adopting as an older parent.
Since I’m about to turn fifty-six and have a 4.75-year-old and a 2-year-old, I’m qualified to write about being a geezer mom. I try very hard not to make that [...]
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