Gradually Getting It Back Together

   I've been here in Saudi Arabia for just over three weeks now and I've been adjusting well to the very hot temperature, dusty environment, and isolation of the small city in the southwest of the country where I now call home. A couple days ago I had my first experience with a sandstorm. Luckily it wasn't too serious, but it still left plenty of sand lying around everywhere outside as well as a thin layer inside of my apartment that covered sections of the furniture, LCD TV, the floor and more.

  I'm getting my court documents, emails, news articles, and more together gradually in preparation for continuing where I left off telling the tale of my experience fighting the fraud, prejudice and injustice of the National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences and Taiwan's courts and government. I'm still looking for some much-needed help to translate some key court & lawsuit documents into English so everyone can see in greater detail how this farce unfolded, twisted and turned to its ignominious end. This is not only the story of what happened to me, but also the story of what has happened to many other expats - and even Taiwanese - on a tiny island lying in the shadows of it's great neighbor China, where the law, legal and human rights are routinely ignored and trampled on by those holding the power and influence to abuse and oppress anyone they so choose.

Movin' On Up and Ahead

  Yes, it's been almost 3 months since my last post. I hadn't intended to be on the quiet this long, but at the time of my previous post I was in the midst of hunting for a new job. The job hunt increasingly took up more of my time with searching, applying, and interviewing at first. After accepting a job offer in April to teach in the far reaches of southwestern Saudi Arabia, it was time to focus on packing and preparations for the long move across the globe. I finally reached my destination of Jizan, Saudi Arabia, just two weeks ago and have been getting settled into the new job, new environment and accommodations. It's my first venture out of the comfort and familiarity of Asia where I had spent most of the past 20 years working and traveling.
  I'll be resuming writing and posting many more documents and emails detailing the deception, prejudice and legal and human rights abuses of the nursing university, Taiwan's courts, as well as several Taiwan government officials.

Digging Deep to Pull Myself Out of A Hole

  Tonight I opened up my own web domain (my first) and started a new blog dedicated to trying to erase the mountain of debt that accumulated throughout most of my 4-year-long battle for human rights and justice in Taiwan. Not only am I seeking donations to help me get squarely back on my feet so I can take proper care of my innocent two young sons who have also suffered from this nightmare, but I am also going to give something back to as many as I can for their kind assistance...and pay it forward too.

  You can find my new blog at Giving Up a Life's Worth of Music, Movies and More For My Kids' Future 

Time For Renewal and Coming Back to Life

  It’s been quite a while since my last post but I’m still here and still going to be sharing more of the nightmare of Taiwan’s injustices against foreigners.

From time-to-time throughout this long-running saga, I’ve needed to take a break from writing and posting materials to handle things going on in the rest of my life and/or to give myself a necessary psychological and emotional rest from recalling the many unpleasant and stressful events of this story.  

  During this current hiatus from blogging, the most significant thing I did was to travel back to Taipei in December for a week to see the newest joy in my life – my second son who I hadn’t seen for 8 months since I moved to Indonesia. The impact of Alice Yang and the nursing university’s evil fraud has been far-reaching - even blackening what should have been a much happier event when my son was born last January. Instead, unnecessary complications between my son’s mother and I have kept us apart, and for financial reasons I had to find work outside of Taiwan last year in order to stop the financial bleeding I endured for years in Taiwan. To make more progress in cutting down the mountain of debt I’ve accumulated in the past 4 years fighting the evil and injustice in Taipei, I’ve had to sacrifice being with my young son and seeing him grow up most of the first year of his life.

  The precious time in December with my younger son and reflecting on my role so far in his and my first son’s lives have brought me to some important realizations and inspired me to re-evaluate what I’ve accomplished since they were born and what I must do from here on. The nursing university fiasco and subsequent events the past 4 years have cast me far out of the stable, positive direction my life had been tracking prior. Seeing the innocent joy and existence of my one-year-old son, playing with him, and imagining all that lies ahead for him and my 11-year-old boy inspired me to some crucial, and in some ways difficult, decisions to try and pull myself out of this 4-year-long funk and get back to who I once was and what I know I can be as a good, loving father to my sons.