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June 2013

June 10, 2013

Instead of Judging Our Fellow Parents, How About Offering Empathy & Respect?

Parents love to judge each other for all kinds of perceived failures. Here are some...

June 06, 2013

Gratitude in an Overscheduled Season

As the school year winds down, my calendar greets me each morning with its list...

May 2013

May 22, 2013

Factory Disasters in Bangladesh, Consumerism, and Original Sin

I approach buying clothes for my children with the same compulsive attention to my kids'...

May 09, 2013

The Summer When I Didn’t Cherish Time with My Kids

Note: I wrote this in the summer of 2009. I am reposting it here as...

May 06, 2013

How Mother’s Day 2006 Was the Beginning of the Rest of My Life

This is the story I told at this past weekend's inaugural Speak Up storytelling event...

May 02, 2013

Parents-to-Be Have More Choices Than Ever, But We Can’t Choose Our Way Out of Pain

Jennifer Gilmore’s story is enough to scare anyone away from open adoption. (It also provides...

April 2013

April 23, 2013

On Silence and Simplicity & Their Opposites (Or, Why I Have Decided to Keep Writing Despite the Prospect of a “Real” Job and a Paycheck)

My blog has been silent for several weeks now, and perhaps some of you have...

March 2013

March 25, 2013

Is That the Whir of Helicopter Blades? On Lavish Maternal Love vs. Overbearing Control

I had dinner the other night with my play group/moms' group/book group. We are a...

March 13, 2013

Living Well with More: Learning to Love (or at Least Accept) My Kids’ Stuff

Graham Hill's op ed about living well with less in last Sunday's New York Times...

March 12, 2013

Taboo Stories About Disability: What We’re Not Allowed to Say

Last week's New York Times featured a story about Joshua Miele, who at the age...

March 11, 2013

When Conflicting Stories Are Both True: Illness, Identity, and the Tales We Tell of Living with Disability

In his vast and gripping book, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search...

March 07, 2013

Bless Those Who Curse You (& Don’t Call Them Eugenicists, Moral Monsters, or Murderers)

A friend recently sent me an article written by an Australian man who has the...

March 06, 2013

How the Story of a Surrogate, Expectant Parents, and a Baby Reveals the Pitfalls of Repro Tech

Fundamentally, it is simply a sad story, one that took place just a few miles...

March 04, 2013

The Dangers of “Solutionism” Applied to Our Always Less-than-Perfect Children

In the New York Times Sunday Review yesterday, Evgeny Morosov defines "solutionism" as "an intellectual...

February 2013

February 14, 2013

To My Children on the Night Before Valentine’s Day

Sugar is the last thing you need, given the gummy “fruit” snacks and cookie-topped yogurts...

February 07, 2013

The Little Blonde Girl on the Back Steps

Before buying the house we live in now, we lived in a tiny five-room ranch...

February 06, 2013

Abortion Isn’t the Only Reproductive Issue for Christians to Care About

I have a post on Think Christian about how the Christian preoccupation with abortion has...

January 2013

January 23, 2013

A Message to the “Nones”: Don’t Reject God Because of Human Suffering or Christian Bullshit

It's one of the most notable cultural statistics of our time: According to the The...

January 22, 2013

Is It Harder for Boys than Girls to Be Who They Really Are?

As I have written before in contemplating my son's nontraditional choices of toys and clothing,...

January 18, 2013

December 2012

December 20, 2012

What to Do Now? Teach Kindness, Work to Curb Violence, and Hug Each Other

There are so many valuable words coming from my writing friends and colleagues in the...

December 17, 2012

“There but for the grace of God”?: Grace, Darkness, and the Sandy Hook Shooting

As I huddled beneath my flannel sheets Friday night, two of my children safely in...

December 04, 2012

Busy Hands, Quiet Heart: Thoughts On Advent

Confession: Every time I come across advice from a fellow Christian urging us to slow...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

What the Real St. Nicholas Teaches Us About Gift Giving

When I picked up Adam C. English's new book, The Saint Who Would be Santa...

November 23, 2012

I Don’t Want to Be an Inspiration, I Just Want to Be Human

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

November 20, 2012

Why I am Grateful to Be an Episcopalian: Part 2 – Adventures in Church Shopping

Read Part 1 of this series here. My husband Daniel and I met at the...

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 15, 2012

Jewish Views on Reproductive Technology: Part 2

This is the second of two posts on Jewish perspectives on reproductive technology. I posted...

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...