Resetting all the whitelists and approved senders is a tough process in email. There are other things, as well, that always make getting a new computer a trial for me. I just figure that it will take several weeks before I get back to being able to use my computer as the tool it is, rather than me being the tool it presently needs to come up to my requirements.
NEW NOVEL FODDER: Today in the NYTimes, an article on surrogate mothers — wombs for rent — grabbed my eye and imagination. What would happen, I wonder, were the parents of the contracted baby to die prior to its birth? That question alone provokes a novel. Two other possible stories came out of that one article, as well. Perhaps I’ll explore them more thoroughly, or maybe I won’t. But the fodder is wonderful.
AND THE ANSWER IS…
Found one answer to the question of WHAT HAPPENS IF THE PARENTS’ DIE question posed above here: http://www.surrogacysolutions.net/tsurrogate.htm
If one intended parent dies, the other will take sole custody of the baby and fulfill the contract as if both were still living. If both intended parents die before the birth of the child, the surrogate mother will relinquish the child at birth to the person named in the Wills of the intended parents to serve as guardian of the child. Intended parents must provide Surrogacy Solutions with the full address and other contact information for guardianship. Intended parents are required to carry life insurance naming the unborn child or a trust for the exclusive benefit of the unborn child as the beneficiary. If the intended father contributed sperm, samples of his DNA are to be preserved in the event of his death prior to the birth of the baby. The death of the intended parents prior to the birth of the child will not result in you being obligated or permitted to raise the child.
Like I said, food for thought. 
Recently:
- Writing Pedagogues
- They Work Very Hard
- Treading the Dangers of Fiction
- Infighting About Grammar & Punctuation
- Scary Writers
- New Novel, Chapter Two
- To the Book Store
- New Novel Amid Chaos
- Raw Gore, Explicit Cruelty, Debased Sex in Novels
- Back from Summer Hiatus
