Anyone in the Green Bay area of Wisconsin with an interest in possible adoption from Russian might be interested in hosting a child for 10 days. The Russian Orphan Lighthouse Project is looking for host families for 10- to 15-year-old kids in January. Check out their website for details.

I have recently come across an interesting summation of the Romanian adoption mess as it played out over the years. Check it out for a quick review up until July of last year ... the last action ... when the US Senate resolved to urge Romania to "modify its ban on international adoptions to allow intercountry adoption by people other than biological grandparents."

By the way, there were 1,100 adoptions in the pipeline when the door slammed shut in 2001.

This article in USA Today on domestic adoption in China provides some food for thought.

With the idea that it is "better for a child to be raised in its mother tongue and motherland", an official of the China Juvenile Research Center in Beijing says that the focus is "what will most benefit the child, and how can we reduce further misfortune," but with lax standards, no homestudy process, and no follow-up, it's hard to determine how much of the practice is a good thing and how much is a recipe for disaster.

Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota, after a two-day visit to Guatemala, is voicing optimism that in-process adoptions in the country will be allowed to complete.

Celebrity adoption gossip has now slopped over onto Bob Geldof, Boomtown Rat, anti-poverty campaigner and first husband to Paula Yates and father to three of her children.

According to the gossip spewers he now wants to adopted Tiger Lily, the daughter she had by Michael Hutchence.

Yes, it's a train wreck before even leaving the station, but apparently these peoples' lives and deaths are of great interest.

Anyway ... Tiger Lily, the youngest of the four daughters -- Fifi Trixiebelle, Peachy and Pixie being the older three -- has been with Geldof since her mother died in 2000 and now he's considering making her a Geldof, too, against the rumored wishes of the remaining Hutchence clan members.

Read about it if you like.

I'm not even giving a link to the stories going around about how Britney Spears is getting close to completing her process to adopt two children from China.

No way.