a story of bao
an experience of adoptive mothering
in fragments & in progress

writings etc. 2004-2006

2 digital stories (image/text/video)

all along the river (a meditation on "abandonment")
http://homepage.mac.com/chinamah/iMovieTheater158.html

mother moon (a meditation on birth mothers)
http://homepage.mac.com/chinamah/iMovieTheater159.html

For more information about our return travel to my daughter's orphanage in Maoming, Guangdong Province, China see:

Summer 2004 travel blog is a large website with journals and photos documenting our ten week trip across southern China (including a visit to the orphanage), Vietnam & Bali supported by the McTaggart Essay Prize funds

See our 2004 visit to the orphanage http://homepage.mac.com/chinamah/PhotoAlbum31.html
http://homepage.mac.com/chinamah/Personal34.html

Summer 2006 travel blog documents seven-week return to my daughter's orphanage and to other cities in China as well as a return visit to Bali:
http://homepage.mac.com/chinamah/2006/PhotoAlbum211.htmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/chinamah/2006/Personal212.html

Read 'Fu' The Turning Point
a creative nonfiction essay about our adoption in
Dropped Threads 3: Beyond the Small Circle (Random House 2006)

writings etc. 2001-2003

our journey to China

excerpts from "becoming Mah"
(this includes parts of "Four Hexagrams for My Chinese Daughter," winner of the 2000 McTaggart Writing Award please note that the posting of this powerpoint presentation is flawed .....JW)

from here to there (a poem)
allez retour