Robertson Adams

Published 12/6/2006

GUEST ADVICE DIVA: Robert Chambers, artist

Q: My wife and I are expecting, and want to raise our child in a hyper-creative environment that goes beyond ant farms and monthly trips to the museum.

Guten Morgan!

Ok, here goes! Baby Morgan is out there, and we aim to find him/her. We're adopting from Kazakhstan through MAPS Adopt, and our dossier has been sent to be translated, hopefully soon to be sent to New York Consulate. The following is for other prospective adoptive parents who are interested (obsessed?) with timelines:

June 2006-- research adoption, consider Kazakhstan, start paper chase
July 22, 2006-- apply for I-600
July 27, 2006 --begin homestudy
August 9, 2006-- Select MAPS agency
August 19-20-- tell family our plans

Here's a video I made at work. We hope to promote this $5 million contest for people to try to connect their community with new media. Anyone can apply.

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.

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.