Until people stop treating adoption like teddy bears and lace, more and more kids will end up like a 11 year old girl from Westfield: critically injured by the very people who are supposed to protect them, their so-called “parents”.
Values Clarification
My friends at HAC have invited me to an orientation meeting tonight for prospective volunteers to help out at “Otis Village”, the barracks which now house a little fewer than 200 evacuees from Hurricane Katrina.
We Can Only Hope
Big surprise, Mitt Romney is being considered to oversee the post-Katrina cleanup.
Not sure what the job is, exactly, except for a high-visibility, no doubt well-paying plum, to a favored contender for national office.
No Big Surprise, but Too Bad Anyway
Macworld Boston is no more – the organizers announced that Macworld will be consolidated into one major show in San Francisco.
Given Apple’s boycott of the Boston venue, and the financial problems that technology shows have had in general since Dot Bomb, the outcome was inevitable.
Cataumet, the Beautiful
Cataumet is a seaside neighborhood within Bourne, a town split by the Cape Cod Canal between the Cape and the mainland.
As dilapitated as Bourne is on the mainland side, the Cape side has some magnificent homes, including a renovated 22-bedroom summer house that used to be a hotel called the Alden House.
There’s Something Wrong Here
Direct quote from this morning’s Boston Globe:
Nantucket will likely bare the brunt of Tropical Storm Ophelia when it rages through southern Massachusetts, Cape Cod and the islands early this morning.
But the attention of state emergency planners is turning to Bourne and Camp Edwards to ease the anxiety of Katrina evacuees as they weather their first significant storm since the hurricane destroyed their Louisiana homes.
Weather Report
We got a good pre-Ophelia dousing yesterday, which was welcome – it was only the second day of rain this whole summer, and the storm helped to lower the deficit.
The forecasters are still not 100% sure of Ophelia’s exact track Northeast, but it looks like we are in for wind and more rain from tonight through Saturday.
Far, Far Worse Than We Were Told
Please read this….
Why It’s Bad to Ask for Help (and Other Fables)
One of my friends raised heck with me last week for not asking for help from friends, especially with house-related tasks, like the installation of the screen door, for instance.
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Mike and Sharon Gravelle are Ohio residents, and they’d jumped on the foster care/adoption gravy train, big time – 11 such “throwaway” kids, ages 1 through 14, lived with them.