August 8, 2006: Our Adoption 'Announcement'

Michele and I are in the midst of adopting a child - code name 'Morgan' - from the nation of Kazakhstan. We're getting excellent input from generous friends who have gone before us.

• Home - Center for Adoption Medicine - Julia Bledsoe was recommended to us as an expert on international adoptions.


• MAPS is the agency we've selected - and which has accepted our application for adoption. (www.mapsadopt.org)


• Chasing Ivancics is one of our favorite adoption blogs to follow for Kazakh details.


• Rob and Jen Go Kazakhstan

Election Monitors Prefer Kazakhstan to Miami

I was amused by this 2004 item from a news blog called IndyBay:

Global monitors find faults
By Thomas Crampton International Herald Tribune
Wednesday, November 3, 2004

MIAMI The global implications of the U.S. election are undeniable, but international monitors at a polling station in southern Florida said Tuesday that voting procedures being used in the extremely close contest fell short in many ways from the best global practices.

The observers said they had less access to polls than in Kazakhstan, that the electronic voting had fewer fail-safes than in Venezuela, that the ballots were not so simple as in the Republic of Georgia and that no other country had such a complex national election system.