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November 2012

November 16, 2012

Which Story Do You Live By?

As the one-year anniversary of my book publication approaches in January, I'm devoting Fridays from...

November 13, 2012

When Parents Hope for Their Children to be Cured, Are We Really Wishing That They “Cease to Be”?

Messages about Andrew Solomon's new book, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search...

November 07, 2012

Freedom Looks Like a Little Boy in Sparkly Leggings

My son's Halloween costume—a rock star in the Freddy Mercury/Kiss/Steven Tyler over-the-top mode—was absolutely perfect...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

I Don’t Always Cherish Time with My Kids, But I Do Pay Attention

Last week, my oldest daughter had some oral surgery, and my sister sent us a...

October 26, 2012

Why We Take Our Kids to Church…Even When It’s a Hassle

Several years ago, I wrote a blog post titled "Confessions of a Church-Skipping Mom." At...

October 24, 2012

The Slippery Nature of Suffering: How Do We Decide What Makes Suffering Unbearable?

In Lois Lowry's novel The Giver, young Jonas knows nothing—absolutely nothing—about pain and suffering until...

October 20, 2012

On Going Viral

Well, this has been interesting. As of right now, my post on "Why I am...

October 12, 2012

On Writing, Reading, and Seeking Direction

I feel I owe regular readers of this blog an apology...or at minimum, an explanation....

September 2012

September 24, 2012

Why Allowing Parents to Choose Their Baby’s Gender is Wrong

When I write and speak about the ethical questions raised by reproductive technologies, I do...

September 20, 2012

What Shane Claiborne (& Mother Teresa!) Got Wrong: On Being the Body of Christ with Imperfect Bodies

Last spring, I heard a terrific talk from Shane Claiborne at the Festival of Faith...

September 11, 2012

Before Everything Changed

(Adapted from a post originally published on my former blog, Five Dollars and Some Common...

August 2012

August 29, 2012

Lessons from Acadia

We just returned from a quick, relatively last-minute family trip to Acadia National Park and...

August 24, 2012

Patheos (& Other) Peeps: Rachel Marie Stone on Loving Our Neighbor By Getting Our Kids Vaccinated

On Fridays, I share links to blog posts by other writers. I link often but...

August 21, 2012

The Myth of the Overscheduled Child

My kids are sometimes overscheduled, but not for the reason you think. (Oh, and they're...

August 08, 2012

Does Prenatal Testing Equal Eugenics?

My colleague and friend Amy Julia Becker had an interesting conversation on her blog earlier...

August 06, 2012

The Life and Death of My Tattoo

A couple of weeks ago, I decided to get a tattoo. This idea came out...

July 2012

July 30, 2012

We Pushed Our Luck, and Got This Guy: Deciding to Have the Third Baby

(Editorial Note: I'm including an excerpt from my book below, so this is more an...

July 25, 2012

Three Things I’ve Learned from Adopting a Puppy

If you've followed my blog for a while, you know that we've had some hard...

July 17, 2012

Plugging in Again….A Little Reluctantly

Did I say I was taking a three-week break from blogging? Yes. Yes I did....

June 2012

June 07, 2012

That Darn Camel: Raising Conscientious Kids in a Stuff-Oriented Culture

by Jennifer Grant This is the fourth of a series of five posts exploring money...

June 06, 2012

That Darn Camel: Money Makes My Head Spin (But I Talk About It Anyway)

by Tim Fall This is the third of a series of five posts exploring money...

June 05, 2012

That Darn Camel: No More Living Life “Just in Case”

by Connie Jakab This is the second of a series of five posts exploring money...

June 01, 2012

Patheos (& Other) Peeps: Katherine Willis Pershey on Marriage, Motherhood, and Ministry

Every Friday, I feature something written by one of my fellow bloggers at Patheos, a...

May 2012

May 25, 2012

Patheos (& Other) Peeps: Christian Piatt on Fatherhood, Anxiety, and Love That Longs for Expression

Every Friday, I feature something written by one of my fellow bloggers at Patheos, a...

May 24, 2012

This is What Love Looks Like

A mother, mother-in-law, aunt, grandmother, and great-grandmother dies, and we gather. We walk through Ruby's...

May 16, 2012

Goodbye to Ruby

On Monday morning, May 14, my mother-in-law, Ruby Kimrey Dollar, died. Which makes my husband...

May 14, 2012

Two Posts I’m Not Going to Write

It is a constant bloggerly temptation to feel that I have to weigh in on...

May 11, 2012

MOMumental: A Parenting Book Even I Can Endorse

Let’s be clear: I do not “do” parenting books. I don’t read books about how...

May 10, 2012

A Collection of Stories About Reproductive Technology

As Amy Julia Becker so eloquently wrote in her review of my book last week,...

May 08, 2012

What I’ve Learned About Adopting a Dog…the Hard Way

One week. That's how long our latest adopted rescue dog lasted in our home. One....