Showing posts with label hospitals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hospitals. Show all posts

Friday, December 5, 2008

Writing from Beyond

The fictional Dumbledore is back from his fictional death, fictionally speaking ... sorta. The creation of author J.K. Rowling is the stern father in situ for Harry Potter [Earlier: Father Falls and More Footsteps] during the latter's seven books of adventures — although (spoiler alert?) Dumbledore does die at the end of vol. Six.

This time the headmaster of wizarding academy Hogwarts is the commentator on short stories in Rowling's new The Tales of Beedle and the Bard. The first of the too-cute but still magickal-in-her-own-way-of-telling tales about a son who inherits a cauldron from his wizard father. Apparently, Dumbledore's commentary makes the otherwise so-so stories worth the reading because you always want to know what the father figure thinks.

You especially want to know what the FF thinks when he is a real father. That sort of quirky curiosity is what led to the arrest of two adult children of a murdered man. They haven't been charged with his demise, yet, but are on the hook for hacking his computer and installing bugs on his car so they could track where he travelled.

Rounding out this not even death should keep us from learning what a dad thinks cabal is the British hospital insisting they required a dead man's signature to insure that he was okay with his daughter looking into his medical file.

Friday, November 23, 2007

Bond ... Baby Bond

Bonding between father and child can happen at any age. Obviously, it is most usual with a newborn.

Just because it can happen at any age doesn't mean it will. And that is the problem facing a couple dads — a Turkish car mechanic and Saudi camel breeder — who took each other's biological sons from the hospital. Now, four years later, the paternity is settled, the legal situation will be decided in the Grievance section of a Saudi court and all the remains is how well the children and fathers (and mothers) will bond.

** It's not the biology, but the bond. **