We don’t realize how important electricity is in our lives until it’s no longer there. My parents have a gas hot water heater, so we’ve gone there for showers. And we have a generator, so my parents and many other relatives and a few neighbors came here to recharge their various gadgets – cellphones and [...]

I’m on a neighbor’s smartphone. Tiny keyboard. Our house miraculously survived. Many of our neighbors’ homes did not. Some of them are staying with us. We are hearing we should be prepared to be without power for a week. I won’t be here much until I return to work or we get power back. I [...]

The comments in yesterday’s post turned into a discussion about fundraising, and I’d like to repeat this once again, as food for thought. I first posted this in 2006: I’ve spoken with an adult Korean adoptee who discovered somewhere around 11 years old that the church had a big fundraiser in order to help her [...]

I’m told a new SN list came out last night. Congrats to those who were matched, and good luck to those still waiting to hear from their agency. I know that no one can share specifics this early on, but if you want to announce you were matched, feel free to do so in the [...]

We went to see this over the weekend, and it was surprisingly good. It is sad in places — animals in nature sometimes die, and we see that in the movie. We are also shown how it is survival of the fittest in the wild. GlitterGirl is still insisting that it was a terribly sad [...]

I often hear adoptive parents talk about how they have to be ambassadors for China. I get what they are saying — I want my kids to feel good about where they came from, so when I hear one of their friends’ parents saying something negative that isn’t true, I feel the need to set [...]