Posted in Island life, Seychelles on June 23, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Below is a link to a site someone set up in response to the whole Moronic Miguel miasma. I have no idea who wrote and posted this, but am pleased and thankful nonetheless that someone took the time to address this topic with informed opinion and reasonable thinking.
You may or may not want to click [...]
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 England, Island life, Seychelles, Writing for a living on June 11, 2008 | 11 Comments »
No, I’m not talking about my husband’s middle age crisis and resulting fallout, even though one reader … someone called Chris something, and I’m guessing is male … sent me a snotty comment that said with all the compassion and eloquence one might expect from someone taking the time to post, “Gee Sandra. Whine much?” [...]
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 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 [...]
Posted in Island life, Seychelles on February 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I remember years ago seeing a cartoon in my ex-husband’s Playboy that pictured a tarted up babe with the look of a pro chatting to another saying, “I’m thinking of moving to another town and starting all over as a virgin.”
Living on an island 1,000 miles from anywhere massive or densely populated, I have come [...]
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 Expat Living, Island life, Seychelles on February 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I know we’re all getting tired of the Miguel the Violent Nut Case story, but since he’s yet to run out of stupid, and since some readers have voiced interest in follow-up, there’s more. Sigh …
Surprise, surprise … he’s taken down the offending post on his blog, done a rewrite he must think casts him [...]
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