November 2025 I’ve been wanting to place a couple of last posts here for some months. I say “last” because years have passed since there was anything much for me to report regarding Rui and me, or regarding what was a long, dreary narrative that was petering out, that of parents trying vainly to find … More Rui is 20
Fifteen years have passed. Where do things stand now? Everyone knows we have mental pictures that fade rapidly while others do not. An afternoon vividly stays and seems to have motion – like the way old film flickers in and out of shadow, angle shifted in rhythm each time light brightens back up. A smile … More Before all the water disappears (February 2025)
Hundreds of children abducted prior to the Hague Convention signing were knowingly abandoned by U.S. State Department authorities from the outset of negotiations. This was a price that U.S. officials were more than willing to pay over the vociferous objections of parents in order to set the weak, international-law treaty ostensibly commiting the parties to a path against abduction into place in order to ease the issue back out of the public eye to the benefit of U.S. and Japanese corporate and military interests. … More Setting the Record Straight: State-Sanctioned Child Abduction Under American and Japanese Auspices
Wednesday, November 16th 2022, Rui turns 17 years old First, a story about a famous rebel. Cassandra is the daughter of the founders of Troy. She became a priestess in Apollo’s temple where, seeing her youth and beauty, Apollo bestowed a divine blessing upon her to try to win her favor: the divine gift of … More Persistence Without Sovereignty
For Rui Boy 