Growing up I had three goals. Work in SE Asia, adopt a child, and write a book. I graduated from nursing school in 1970, went to West Kalimantan, Indonesia in 1976, accumulated five children while I was nursing in a Christian hospital until I lost my visa in 1982, and have parented them long-distance since then. I have 18 grandchildren in Indonesia.
I adopted my first US child as a single parent in 1984 and have since adopted five more, who are now between the ages of 11 and 31. I have had a dozen US foster children and eight foster children from outside more...
