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kodwo in jeffersonia: Citizenship
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I'm not someone who claims to care a lot. As a university student, a friend of mine once said that if I wrote a book it would be called ' I don't give a rat's ass. I'm the guy who, as soon as I pick up a telemarketing call, say ' I'm not interested in what you're trying to sell me. Then hangs up if they attempt to continue with their spiel. I should say, if you ' don't give a rat's ass. What I've taken away from the passport situation is just how interesting and weird citizenship is. I don't think so....
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kodwo in jeffersonia: April 2014
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Drinking in the morning. Every morning at breakfast, my daughter asks to drink the watered down juice I'm drinking from my cup instead of the non-juice she has in her sippy-cup. When I'm down to one swig, I give my glass to her. She drinks this over several sips, saying ' ahhhh. After each sip and about 1/3 of the juice ends up not going into her mouth. I look as her with the giant cup in her tiny hands, covering her entire face, with it dribbling down her chin and I think she looks like a drunk. And saw...
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kodwo in jeffersonia: My Mother, March Madness, and Zucchini Bread
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My Mother, March Madness, and Zucchini Bread. I was woken up by Emily tapping on my shoulder. She said something like ' The nurse said it's almost time. She hasn't got much time left. I was on a sofa, college basketball was on TV. It wasn't a sofa or TV that I knew. I came to in the next couple of seconds. It was late at night on the 20th of March 2010. I was at the Gilchrist Hospice. Facility, in Towson. My mother had been here for slightly over a day. There was the move to Edinburgh. The years that fol...
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kodwo in jeffersonia: Say 'ta'
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I'm still very much American in the way I talk. Unless I take the time to think about what I'm saying, I still use phrases like ' parking lot'. And ' trash can'. I tend to say ' thank you. Instead of ' cheers'. I catch myself pronouncing tomatoes and basil the way an American would ( tow-may-tow. I pronounce strawberry with the ' e. And almost never say ' hiya. My world is about to change. Might as well be ' schloog fleig. As far as the kid is concerned. Asking if the kid wants any ' bluebries.
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kodwo in jeffersonia: March 2014
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Before we began the adoption process, I don't think I'd ever heard the phrase Attachment Disorder. And if I did, I surely didn't pay any attention to it. In the adoption/fostering context, Attachment Disorder is the inability for a child to have a normal bond (attachment) with a caretaker. Add to this, my sense of order in how things work in my world, and I didn't come off as the most enthusiastic potential adopter. The night before we moved the kid into our place for good, I barely slept. On the 1&#...
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kodwo in jeffersonia: 21
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In early February 1992, I had a dream. I woke up remembering nothing about the dream except that the 21st of the month meant something - I didn't know what. I'm not one to think dreams mean very much, but I still wondered if anything would happen on the 21st of February that year. Nothing did. I vaguely thought about it for a couple more months, then the thought of something happening on the 21st just faded, but was never forgotten. We spoke to my sister on the kid's 2nd birthday; my sister, whose face r...
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kodwo in jeffersonia: December 2014
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Four Court Dates and an Adoption. The wildly popular podcast Serial. Got into the issue of how well people remember things around the time of a major event in their lives - where they were when it happened, what they remember from the day, etc. I'm amazed at how un-climactic a day of a recent major event was for me, and how uneventful the day was. The day was slightly over a week ago and I honestly do not remember much about the day. There are 2 steps to the legal process - relinquishing parental rights ...
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kodwo in jeffersonia: Four Court Dates and an Adoption
http://kodwo.blogspot.com/2014/12/four-court-dates-and-adoption.html
Four Court Dates and an Adoption. The wildly popular podcast Serial. Got into the issue of how well people remember things around the time of a major event in their lives - where they were when it happened, what they remember from the day, etc. I'm amazed at how un-climactic a day of a recent major event was for me, and how uneventful the day was. The day was slightly over a week ago and I honestly do not remember much about the day. There are 2 steps to the legal process - relinquishing parental rights ...
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kodwo in jeffersonia: 18 March 2010
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This is from a journal entry I wrote during the Summer of 2010:. I don't remember much about the bus ride to the airport, or boarding the plane, or what movies were playing on the flight, and what movies I may have watched. I do remember that the flight was delayed for an hour in Heathrow, because of some kind of technical problem. Emily and my dad said " Jeff is here, Jeff is here. Her sister, Mary, who had arrived from New York that same day, said to her in Twi " Jeff is here, Jeff is here.
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