Posted on May 28th, 2013 in
Christianity,
Conference on Medicine and Religion,
disabilities,
disability,
ethics,
fertility clinics,
God,
infertility,
IVF,
No Easy Choice,
OI,
parenthood,
PGD,
prenatal testing,
reproductive technology,
vaccination,
vaccines,
Voices for Vaccines
Last fall I pointed blog readers to my colleague Rachel Stone’s post on vaccination as an expression of neighborly love. Today, Rachel has a follow-up post of sorts, commenting on a Mother Jones article indicating that poverty and other family is...
At my local pool, people with limps and spots and wrinkles are the norm, and it's the statuesque blonde in a bikini who raises eyebrows. This is my kind of place.
Posted on May 9th, 2013 in
cherish time with your children,
disabilities,
disability,
family,
kids,
OI,
pain,
parenthood,
seasons,
suffering,
summer,
summertime
Note: I wrote this in the summer of 2009. I am reposting it here as summer approaches, as a reminder (to myself, above all) of how radically life can change us in surprising ways. I used to despise the summertime, for reasons I explain in this post. No...
Posted on May 6th, 2013 in
disabilities,
disability,
family,
kids,
marriage,
Mother's Day,
OI,
pain,
parenthood,
parenting,
Speak Up storytelling,
women
This is the story I told at this past weekend’s inaugural Speak Up storytelling event in Hartford. In my next email newsletter, I will include a link to the Speak Up podcast, which includes my telling this story to a live audience (with considera...
Posted on May 2nd, 2013 in
adoption,
disabilities,
disability,
Down syndrome,
ethics,
family,
gender selection,
Jennifer Gilmore,
kids,
KJ Dell'Antonia,
Lauren Apfel,
Motherlode,
No Easy Choice,
OI,
pain,
parenthood,
PGD,
prenatal testing,
reproductive technology,
suffering,
The Atlantic Sexes,
women
Jennifer Gilmore’s story is enough to scare anyone away from open adoption. (It also provides the best supporting evidence ever for my contention that “Why don’t you just adopt?” might be one of the stupidest questions known to huma...