New from dry New Mexico

[DirtyCoconuts]

helloooo and welcome aboard!!

sounds like you will have lots to add from your experience as well.

[early]

Camille, Dolly, WW, Rbarata, d.Coco, Thanks one and all for the warm welcomes. I have a friend in NY from the Netherlands, She is also an RN. I have great stories about growing things in MO, especially from when I was a youngin in my grandparents garden. WW
I too love Taos. I worked there one winter, 5 feet of snow once. My daughters loved skiing there. Rbarata, I had to look up your city to even know it was on the Iberian Pen. I really miss the ocean from 30 yrs in SoCalif. loved to swim. I would love to visit Portigual but alas, at 78 yrs, I will probably travel only on this side of the pond. Dirty Coconuts, I read you are an attorney. I play one on..just kidding. I do boss some attorneys around tho at our district court where I out of boredom between a nursing job, ask for a volunteer job there. I have run/coordinated a free legal clinic for 7 yrs. I work with4 to 5 attorney monthly and the only one I boss around is the staff attorney when she is frazzled, telling her to do the civil case, and I will run the clinic, along with my helper who is our translator. Almost as good as being a nurse.

[DirtyCoconuts]

Originally Posted by early

Camille, Dolly, WW, Rbarata, d.Coco, Thanks one and all for the warm welcomes. I have a friend in NY from the Netherlands, She is also an RN. I have great stories about growing things in MO, especially from when I was a youngin in my grandparents garden. WW
I too love Taos. I worked there one winter, 5 feet of snow once. My daughters loved skiing there. Rbarata, I had to look up your city to even know it was on the Iberian Pen. I really miss the ocean from 30 yrs in SoCalif. loved to swim. I would love to visit Portigual but alas, at 78 yrs, I will probably travel only on this side of the pond. Dirty Coconuts, I read you are an attorney. I play one on..just kidding. I do boss some attorneys around tho at our district court where I out of boredom between a nursing job, ask for a volunteer job there. I have run/coordinated a free legal clinic for 7 yrs. I work with4 to 5 attorney monthly and the only one I boss around is the staff attorney when she is frazzled, telling her to do the civil case, and I will run the clinic, along with my helper who is our translator. Almost as good as being a nurse.

I hope to be half as engaged in life as you are at even 3/4 your age.


don't even pretend to be a lawyer, i can already tell, it is beneath you

I got to do Child support enforcement for a brief time when i was a State Attorney and let me tell you....you are never that Right with a capital R as when you are there on behalf of the financial interests of a minor child....not easy( either in practice or on the soul) but that was good work to do well

[early]

DC I was a mediator for a few years, and was a CASA (court appointed special advocate) s4o I know about working with kids. I worked with kiddos and foster parents, wrote detailed reports for the Judge when I went to all the hearings. It was a very rewarding job and my heart still aches from 6 yrs ago when I and all concerned recommended a 4 yr old be given a trial back with the birth mom, who had never taken care of him but a couple of months since birth. One week after she finished not six months as required but three, she gave the child to someone in Las Vegas. who actually was a felon from TX. She six yrs later. lied to the judge saying she is his aunt, and after one week was able to adopt him after a short hearing without notification of his grandparents. Don't get me started on abused kids. sorry for the off topic rant.

[WaterWitchin]

You’re not off topic Early. It’s the getting to know ya thread.
As a former paralegal in a prior lifetime, and a great bosser around of attorneys, I truly understand the kid situations. Past sad. And criminal and divorce work... sometimes also just sad. I finally just couldn’t do it any longer. Just thinking about some of it still makes my blood boil.

Namaste.

[early]

this little guy that I visited a few x a week for a year was so bright and fun. when 18 months someone mentioned a snake and he asked if it was an anaconda; lol.
the foster family had another child since NICU days, that they adopted/ He was 4 months younger than the other foster boy. they were together for over a year. Even months after the other one went back to bio mom, when I would visit the family I would take a gift and offer him one of two. He would say, maybe I could give the other one to my broter. He is 8 now, plays bb and base ball, and is a delight. the mom contacted me after my not having been in tough for a few years and connected me with the ggmother of the child in NV. She is 84 and is fighting to get the adoption annulled due to the NV woman being a felon and comitting perjury by claming to be the aunt. I called the CASA in NV and they are the one that told me. case closed, child adopted. Yes it takes a toll when one connects with a severly abuse child that deeply. I applaud the ggm for her determination to see him or get him back in the family.

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Sorry, WaterWitchin, I thought I was still answering Dirty Coconuts post. I live alone currently and run off at the mouth/fingertips too often.

[DirtyCoconuts]

it really breaks one's heart....fortunately, there are people with hearts big enough to get up the next day and do it all again.....

salute!!

[Dollythehun]

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