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 Uncategorized on July 9, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Sorry about the lack of posts lately, but for some reason all the excitement that should be happening with the book about to launch Friday is wrapped in a black cloud of sadness and I’m left with so little energy that all I have goes into keeping the kids on what level ground I can [...]
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 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 Adoption, Cambodia, International Adoption, Uncategorized on September 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Families with Cambodian connections can check out the week’s wrap of news from the country here and here.
Some of the topics of the week are the shutting down of NCLO, new traffic laws and development plans for Kep City.
Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Writing for a living on August 16, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m back from my vacation … a pleasant week in Mauritius … and have resumed my pro blogging, but it’s a slog. Having managed to kick my compuddiction quite nicely, thank you, getting back into the swing is proving to be harder than I imagined.
I did take my computer along, but used it only [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 5, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I’m taking a week off for some comprehensive quality time with my family. Hubby and kids are heavily in favor of me ignoring my computer, and I’m bowing to their wishes for my undivided attention for a full seven days.
After 18 months of working flat out every single day of the week, it’s time for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Beauty … in the eye of the beholder, right?
As Oscar Wilde said, “No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.” But to be fair, he did also say, “It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be [...]
Posted in American thoughts, Seychelles, Uncategorized on June 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Tomorrow is the 5th of June, Senk Zen in Creole, the Seychelles version of the 4th of July. It’s not called Independence Day, however, because that holiday comes later in the month, on the 29th of June, and marks the hand-over from British rule on the day in 1976, almost 200 years after the US [...]
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