Family
November 6, 2009
- See that little baby in the arms of a beggar? See those eyes looking blankly? He has been sedated. He has been rented out. He could be your child.This is a real case and it happened in Bangalore, the city touted as the IT capital of India.A seven-month-old baby of a working couple who relied on their ayah—recruited from an employment agency, and hence thought to be above board—was used for ...
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November 4, 2009
- Right the Bill My fourteen year- old son came home from school yesterday and immediately began a conversation with the differences between the two political parties. I assumed the topic was brought up at school (at this time of the year) and why he was full of questions and answers for me. He said: He thinks that the (A) political party seems to have a focus and ...
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October 31, 2009
- Allow me to tempt you away from Halloween candy and the looming specter of NaNoWriMo to relax with an excerpt from my novel HIGHWAY TO OBLIVION. I promise an easy read, nothing painful, nothing controversial. THE PLAN --- Lily Buchanan had grown up in a little nameless town “in the South.” ...
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October 28, 2009
- Littluns don't have to think about what truth is. To be anything but truthful, just wouldn't be Littlun. Littluns are pure of thought and deeds. It just wouldn't occur to them to be any other way.Residing high atop Powder Mountain and nestled within their pure, secret, and protected land of Hollow hills, Littluns are shielded from any outside negative ...
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October 28, 2009
- Tuesday, October 20, 2009 I spent the day with my mom going through a neuro series to determine what her memory issues officially are. It confirms what I've always believed: everything matters.Tell those close to you that you love them...every day.Tell people you work with how much you appreciate them...every chance you get.Hold a hand out for a stranger, open the door for someone who ...
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October 28, 2009
- I was born in LA county in 1960 and feel NO connection there. None. Even the ocean is changed. I do like the salt air smell and the eucalyptus trees. It is like being an adoptee who occasionally visits a biological parent who has both terminal cancer and Alzheimer's. You came from them originally, but there is no mutual recognition on any meaningful level and only sadness and alienation.
I ...
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October 25, 2009
- My 8th and 9th graders have to write a 350 "essay" on this topic. One of my classes asked, "Ms. Hooker, are you going to write this essay?" So, here's mine. WHAT MEMORIAL DAY MEANS TO ME . . .I’m the product of Mormon immigrants. My parents settled within ten minutes of the homes in which they were raised. Growing up, my Memorial Days were spent in the backseat ...
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October 22, 2009
- Thank you for checking my blog. I believe the best way to learn about me is through my personal vision and mission statement, which I authored in January 1996. For Myself: Using my gift of creativity and imagination, I will continue to invent the future by expressing my visions courageously in words and actions. I will always be a professional – honoring integrity, justice, kindness, and will ...
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October 21, 2009
- The beginning was always a very good place to start, or so I thought. Each time I returned to that old house at the end of the road, memories would overtake me of my childhood and the times we spent together. The last time we met here was after our mother passed away several years ago. We recalled with a mix of sadness and joy the life we had spent on that quiet farm, not far from the big ...
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October 20, 2009
- Blood and marriage draw families together but often whole worlds continue to separate us as individuals. Lifestyle choices. Generations. In-laws. Siblings. Achieving – and maintaining -- harmony is a challenge we all seem to face.Some clans need more help than others. Around our holiday table in 1979, my fractious relatives were gifted with a sudden ability to perceive each other as the ...
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