Archive for January, 2010

Why aren’t you adopting from Haiti?

by Beth Shepherd - Pampers and Pakhlava
( January 28th, 2010 )

If I had a $10 for every time someone has asked me recently why we aren’t adopting from Haiti, I could probably fund the update to our home study (more on this in an upcoming post). Here’s the thing, even if we wanted to adopt from Haiti, we can’t.

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Lunch with a lama

by Beth Shepherd - Pampers and Pakhlava
( January 27th, 2010 )

Inky blackness greets my eyes as I step outside our hotel’s front door. My skin prickles from the intense sharpness of the cold air. As my eyes adjust to the darkness, I can see millions of stars filling the darkness, like a Pointillist painting. The Milky Way spills out in …

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A monk and a fish

by Beth Shepherd - Pampers and Pakhlava
( January 20th, 2010 )

Thwap goes my hand, as I smack it down hard on the table, leaving one mortally wounded fruit fly. A remaining undamaged silvery wing twitches a bit before I flick my fingers and send the fly sailing over the table’s edge to its demise.

Big Papa shakes his head. “I guess …

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