Fundraiser, Please Click On The Link to help a GOOD CAUSE!
November 4, 2009   My dad has a debilitating illness.  He can no longer be cared for at home, and he resides in a skilled nursing center called The Pines of Sarasota, in Sarasota, Florida. The Pines gives very high quality care for people even after they have exhausted their resources.  It is also a nonprofit which depends on private fundraising efforts.  My dad's wife, Marjorie, has a great opportunity to raise funds for The Pines, but it depends on her getting clicks on an internet site.  Can you help by clicking on her site, HERE? 

I'm Famous!
Actually, another busy lawyer just wrote a very kind write up in the blog of the S.C. Women Lawyers Association, about my brand new, solo mediation practice.  Repatriation is the end of a journey.  Or is it the beginning?  When I went to China, I was a particular person with thoughts, hopes, and dreams.  China changed me.  Living overseas, in a different culture, does that to people!  I imagine that the further we are, culturally, from our home culture, the more changed we become.  When we return, however, we find that we have changed but our native culture has not.  We must learn a new way of fitting into it.  When I returned from China, I knew intellectually th

Where Is The Love?
I was the only person in the bicycle shop.  I was at the counter, making a small purchase and chatting with the owner, when a young man pulled into the parking lot, driving a loud motorcycle.  He strode up to the counter and asked if the bike shop had some part he needed for his motorcycle.    The young fellow was tatooed and pierced.  He had on makeup and had spiked hair.  He was wearing all black Goth clothes.  He made his purchase and left.  This was in the early 1980's in rural South Carolina.  Around these parts, we didn't see much of that type of dress.  It brought to mind television images I had seen of neo-Nazis and hate groups.  Not saying a word, I j

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25 September 2009 It has taken awhile but I'm finally getting my feet back nestled into the earth of living back in the USA.   When I went to China, the very helpful book The Expert Expatriate talked about how repatriation was harder for expats, in some ways, than moving to a new culture in the first place.  This is very surprising.  You think you're coming "home" so that everything will be easy, but it's not.  You have changed.  It's one thing to know intellectually that this will be challenging, something entirely different to live through it!  We