Links from a dry well …

It was a rough weekend.

Although I did manage to fit a couple of hours of beach time in, most of both Saturday and Sunday were taken up with work, work, work. Now it’s Monday, and I’m a dry well.

Because I haven’t the capacity to form more than a couple of sentences, and no creative juice at all, today’s post is going to be a list of links I use a lot. Some are fun, some are for work, some are like Mt. Everest (there).

This one is full of great quotes. I love quotes. I hope to be one someday. (Today doesn’t count.) There are loads:

Anna Quindlen:
Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? “Keep her,” I replied…. The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me.

RathCare is made up mostly of families who’ve adopted from Cambodia and addresses issues with the US suspension of adoptions from there.

RathCare is a committed group of individuals, some parents of children adopted from Cambodia, some not, whose primary goal is to address the issues that created the moratorium and help institute a system that will work, both for the children of Cambodia and for the requirements of the US and Cambodian governments. This group has continued to communicate with all levels of the government, including personal visits to the US Ambassador in Cambodia and a future one planned. This group has traveled to D.C., held an open-forum discussion with the key players and met personally with both State Department and USCIS staff who hold the keys to the resumption of adoptions.

Getting Out details a book that will be out next month that I contributed to.

Getting Out walks you through the world of the expat: the reasons, the rules, the resources, the tricks of the trade, along with compelling stories and expertise from expatriate Americans on every continent.

AdoptMed is the site for the Center for Adoption Medicine at the University of Washington.

Our physicians, Dr. Julia Bledsoe and Dr. Julian Davies, provide pre-adoption consultations by telephone for families adopting from abroad or domestically.

Ethica is a source for information on ethics in adoption.

For a look at a book dedicated to my son, Sam, look here. (You can view it in English or French.)

It was written by a man we met while in Cambodia and is an amazing collection of words and photos of the place that coincides exactly with our first experience of the country.

I’m not much of a cook, but this site taught me how to make good Greek yogurt. I’ve had some great dinners from there, too, and Gay learned how to stuff grape leaves with delightful results.

And finally, for today … I have zillions more links to share later … here’s Sam’s adoption story that I wrote for the agency we used.

Photo: leTriangle

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