Comments for Unsigned Masterpiece http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com A blog about adoption and other topics Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:27:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on UM’s Most Popular Post So Far by Denise http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/most-read-post-so-far/#comment-239 Denise Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:27:13 +0000 http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/?p=1149#comment-239 So many apologies owed,,, everyone involved in the scooping of babies, from the doctors to the attorneys or social services, even the adoptive parents. They must know what they are doing and yet turning a blind eye to fulfill their own needs. I don't know what got into me, but I rejected foster care and refused to release my son from the hospital until he went to his adoptive home. In some ways, I wish I'd allowed foster care, where I might have been allowed to visit him and/or change my mind before it became final. I have learned a lot since. Back then, my thinking was that he not languish or be held up to the highest bidder. The attorney was pissed, but as it happened he had a family for me to approve (what a pack of lies!) and my son was picked up within day, flown from California to NY. In retrospect perhaps a mistake, but that's what I thought was best at the time. So indoctrinated I was... So many apologies owed,,, everyone involved in the scooping of babies, from the doctors to the attorneys or social services, even the adoptive parents. They must know what they are doing and yet turning a blind eye to fulfill their own needs.

I don’t know what got into me, but I rejected foster care and refused to release my son from the hospital until he went to his adoptive home. In some ways, I wish I’d allowed foster care, where I might have been allowed to visit him and/or change my mind before it became final. I have learned a lot since. Back then, my thinking was that he not languish or be held up to the highest bidder. The attorney was pissed, but as it happened he had a family for me to approve (what a pack of lies!) and my son was picked up within day, flown from California to NY.

In retrospect perhaps a mistake, but that’s what I thought was best at the time. So indoctrinated I was…

]]> Comment on Twittering like a little birdie…. by suz http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/twittering-like-a-little-birdie/#comment-202 suz Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:46:41 +0000 http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/?p=1151#comment-202 No picture needed cuz I dont believe privacy really exists and as such I dont worry much about it. I live my life as if everything I do will eventually be known by somebody somehow. This means I dont share what I dont want known. This also means I dont indulge in activities that could come back to haunt me professionally or personally. Working in IT Security for many years, I know what can be done and IS done to get information. Guess it broke my illusion that we actually have privacy in this day and age. No picture needed cuz I dont believe privacy really exists and as such I dont worry much about it. I live my life as if everything I do will eventually be known by somebody somehow. This means I dont share what I dont want known. This also means I dont indulge in activities that could come back to haunt me professionally or personally.

Working in IT Security for many years, I know what can be done and IS done to get information. Guess it broke my illusion that we actually have privacy in this day and age.

]]> Comment on The Credit Crisis…. by Margie http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/the-credit-crisis/#comment-201 Margie Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:30:29 +0000 http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/?p=1132#comment-201 The greed behind those credit card companies utterly disgusts me. And they prey on people, literally prey on them. Our son didn't have his checking account a month before the credit card applications, with those horrible checks attached, started coming. Fortunately they're coming to our house and not directly to him, so we can grind them up. I'm really sorry you're going through this. It's horrible. The greed behind those credit card companies utterly disgusts me. And they prey on people, literally prey on them. Our son didn’t have his checking account a month before the credit card applications, with those horrible checks attached, started coming. Fortunately they’re coming to our house and not directly to him, so we can grind them up.

I’m really sorry you’re going through this. It’s horrible.

]]> Comment on The Credit Crisis…. by suz http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/the-credit-crisis/#comment-199 suz Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:19:48 +0000 http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/?p=1132#comment-199 Hugs to you. I was married to a man like your father. Credit cards, oodles of them, debt, tons of it, it contributed GREATLY to the demise of our marriage. I cannot live like that. I wish I could help with the stress. Do know I am thinking about you and sending you hugs. Hugs to you. I was married to a man like your father. Credit cards, oodles of them, debt, tons of it, it contributed GREATLY to the demise of our marriage. I cannot live like that.

I wish I could help with the stress. Do know I am thinking about you and sending you hugs.

]]> Comment on Watch This Space by Margie http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/watch-this-space/#comment-198 Margie Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:36:34 +0000 http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/?p=1123#comment-198 I'm watching! And I hope you're doing well!! I’m watching! And I hope you’re doing well!!

]]> Comment on Watch This Space by Suz http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/watch-this-space/#comment-197 Suz Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:49:53 +0000 http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/?p=1123#comment-197 Woohoo! Woohoo!

]]> Comment on This little light of mine… by Margie http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/this-little-light-of-mine/#comment-192 Margie Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:30:38 +0000 http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/?p=1104#comment-192 Hey, there, happy new year! I'm with you about Odetta's passing, I was so sad to hear that news last month. She was amazing, a real inspiration. Here's to all good things in 2009! Hey, there, happy new year!

I’m with you about Odetta’s passing, I was so sad to hear that news last month. She was amazing, a real inspiration.

Here’s to all good things in 2009!

]]> Comment on Happy Thanksgiving USA by Margie http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/happy-thanksgiving-usa/#comment-185 Margie Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:26:30 +0000 http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/?p=1091#comment-185 Good luck with that play, wow that's awesome! And thank you for wishing us down here a happy Thanksgiving - kids were home and all was right with the world for a few days in my neck of the woods. Good luck with that play, wow that’s awesome! And thank you for wishing us down here a happy Thanksgiving – kids were home and all was right with the world for a few days in my neck of the woods.

]]> Comment on This is what we’re up against my friends … by Nathaniel Christopher http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/this-is-what-were-up-against-my-friends/#comment-182 Nathaniel Christopher Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:38:49 +0000 http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/?p=1041#comment-182 Good god, that Mary Kochan is a real piece of work... I don't think that you were attacking Helen at all. You were raising valid questions and exposing glaring flaws in her logic. Instead of actually addressing your points and continuing a dialogue this editor seems to be acting like a control freak who's stuck in 1973 when the media was more of a one way street... I could go on and on about this... but I'll be civil and stop here! :) Great blog!!! You're in my reader! Good god, that Mary Kochan is a real piece of work… I don’t think that you were attacking Helen at all. You were raising valid questions and exposing glaring flaws in her logic. Instead of actually addressing your points and continuing a dialogue this editor seems to be acting like a control freak who’s stuck in 1973 when the media was more of a one way street…

I could go on and on about this… but I’ll be civil and stop here! :)

Great blog!!! You’re in my reader!

]]> Comment on Just fyi – Hess Saxton hits by The Improper Adoptee http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/just-fyi-hess-saxton-hits/#comment-181 The Improper Adoptee Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:10:05 +0000 http://unsignedmasterpiece.wordpress.com/?p=1081#comment-181 You can't trust her UM. Trust me. She is just there to judge. And to lie. All we can do is counteract her at every turn. Those are my plans. You can’t trust her UM. Trust me. She is just there to judge. And to lie. All we can do is counteract her at every turn. Those are my plans.

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