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November 2012

November 08, 2012

CH-CH-CH-CH CHANGES: News from God Girl

Being Vasco's mother is the single most important thing to me in the world. It...

May 2012

May 20, 2012

Wild Goose Festival: God Girl AND Crime Boy (It’s a Family Affair!)

Cathleen will be speaking at this year's Wild Goose Festival outside Durham, N.C. A cousin...

May 20, 2012

I Am My Mother’s Daughter (Thanks Be to God)

“My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of...

November 2010

November 09, 2010

Listen to Vasco’s Journey on NPR’s “The Story”

In June 2009, a few days before Vasco underwent marvelously successful open-heart surgery at Hope...

October 2010

October 13, 2010

GODSTUFF: Forty on 40 ~ Spiritual Lessons at Midlife…

40. There is nothing you can do that would make God throw up God’s hands,...

October 05, 2010

The LOST Sin Boldly Interview (w/ thanks to DJ Jeff)

Tonight DJ Jeff really had a surprise for me. It was...well...me. In between tracks from...

September 2010

September 13, 2010

I need a do-over and it’s only 11 a.m. on Monday

Maybe it's time to go back to bed and try again ... I'm fighting it...

August 2010

August 19, 2010

Eighty years: My father’s story in pictures

My father is my hero, a gentleman in every sense of the word...He is a...

July 2010

July 30, 2010

God Nods: Girl with the dragonfly tattoo

Dragonflies have a way of turning up at threshold moments in my life--like God's early...

June 2010

June 28, 2010

Kondandani Potty-time Massacre

The first time we visited Kondanani was the afternoon following our successful adoption hearing in...

June 28, 2010

Kondanani Children’s Village: Shelter in the storm

Kondanani Children's Village is the most beautiful, best-run and nicest orphanage in all of Malawi....

June 28, 2010

Hard to ask, harder to hear …

They day after the High Court approved Vasco's adoption in Malawi, we went back out...

June 26, 2010

AN OPEN LETTER TO MADONNA: THANK YOU, FROM ONE MOTHER TO ANOTHER

Dear Madonna, Thank you. Earlier this week, after a month-long sojourn in Malawi, my family...

June 26, 2010

Home!

Three days, three continents, nearly 30 hours in the air and 3 1/2 hours (inexplicably)...

June 22, 2010

Curios and curiosities: Things to do at an airport

Apart from my beautiful son, my very favorite souvenir from Africa was this hand-made rag...

June 21, 2010

Johannesburg and a history lesson on the way home …

Our first stopover on our journey home to California from Malawi was in Johannesburg, where...

June 20, 2010

Out of Malawi…(Better) be home soon!

Hiya from JoBurg where we're on a long layover between flights and I've managed to...

June 14, 2010

Mama, we’re comin’ home!

A quick note to say that, Lord willing, we will be home in Los Angeles...

June 13, 2010

Random Malawi pix I’ve been trying to post for two-three weeks

June 12, 2010

This was supposed to be the easy part …

Hi everybody.We're feeling pretty darn grumpy over here in Malawi at the moment.New delays. Unexpected...

June 10, 2010

The kids from Smile Malawi orphanage sing us goodbye

Such beautiful voices.Such beautiful people.

June 10, 2010

Hey AT&T: Tanks fer nuttin’!

My iPhone has turned into a block of wood. Well, plastic and stuff.No service. No...

June 10, 2010

We found Little Frankie!

Vasco and Frankie on Wednesday at Smile Malawi Back on October 12, 2007, a few...

June 06, 2010

Introducing Vasco Fitzmaurice Mark David Possley

One of the great joys of new, legal, adoptive parenthood is the blessing of name-giving.On...

June 06, 2010

While we wait …

Malawi Flames superfans.It was a quiet Saturday in Lake Wo-be-Malawi ...Our first real "down day"...

June 02, 2010

It’s a boy!

At approximately 2:30 p.m. Malawi time on Tuesday, June 1, 2010, the High Court of...

June 01, 2010

Hippos and Elephants and Safaris, oh my!

THIS IS WHERE A PICTURE OF VASCO STANDING IN FRONT OF A SIGN THAT SAYS...

May 2010

May 28, 2010

The waiting game …

Hi everybody.This is the part where I'm supposed to write that the adoption was approved...

May 27, 2010

Moni from Malawi

From L-R: Vasco's uncle Mavuto, his other uncle Esmie's husband (never caught his first name),...

May 20, 2010

We’re about to embark on an epic African adventure … again.

Hello family and friends!This is a private blog that we have set up to keep...