Category: Going Mental
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My Adoption Journey – 5C: Birth Family Update
The end of May arrived and about once a week I would check the website for an update on the DNA results, though I knew they would also send an email. Since both samples were under my account, I could switch back and forth on what was being revealed. My mind was swinging back and forth…
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My Adoption Journey – 5B: Birth Family Update
To continue…. So, two years later, I received an email from HS inquiring as to how I was and apologizing for not writing sooner, but that she needed time to process. She asked me to connect with her on Kakao Talk, which is the Korean version of WhatsApp. So, I did. We exchanged a few…
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My Adoption Journey – 5A: Birth Family Update
I know that I promised some updates on my travels this summer, but as I have finally processed a bit about the results of my birth family search, I thought perhaps I would write on that today. As I was just going back over this blog, I realized that my last posting on this topic…
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Back and Nearly Ready!
Well, six weeks flew by and I saw 9 countries that were all wonderful. I will be updating as I can with pics and thoughts on my visits. In the meantime, we got back last night and were up early this morning on a new regime. Since we both got a bit pudgy over the…
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Re – charge, juvenate, fresh, peat, new, vise!
I hadn’t realized it has been so long since I last posted. Guess I have been busy and taking some space to enjoy life whilst processing next steps. This space will, as I am constantly saying, become more active soon. My plan is to return to more regular scheduled programming upon my return to the…
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Better Days
In every heart there is a dream In every eye there is a hope In every mind there is a way for it all to come true. In every child there is an innocence In every woman there is an intuition In every man there is an instinct for it all to come true We…
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Breaking In the New Wheels
For a while now I have been considering getting a new car because my lovely Materia has spent the last six years getting bullied on the UAE roads. In general I have a thing against buying used cars in this country since people tend to abuse their cars and then lie about the usage. Also,…
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Hm….
The importance of space and time is often so misunderstood and under-appreciated. If I say that I’m an introvert to an extrovert, they may think that I’m just being selfish and giving myself a ‘title’ to justify it. Yet, an extrovert who needs to be social without an interest in space and time will never…
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Both Ends are’a Burnin’….
I am exhausted…that’s truly an understatement. I thought I was doing okay in balancing my life out, but it seems that isn’t the case. It is affecting just about all parts of my life, which is not great, though I think work benefits the most. So, this picture nicely illustrates how I’m doing…balancing it all…
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Settling Down…
I am working on my routine and life away from being ‘a PhD student’. It’s progressing well overall, though I still have a few loose ends to tie up with withdrawing from the university and putting together what I need to do to get an article (or two) or book chapter out of what I…
