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What I’m Reading: Articles and Essays
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amyjuliabecker
Please forgive the formatting of this post–blogger is sometimes out of control, or at least out of my technical capabilities! Still some articles worth reading: “Red Family, Blue Family,” New York Times, May 9, 2010. This is a great op-ed exploring abortion, teen pregnancy, family values, and the sexual revolution. A quote: “Liberals sometimes argue…
What I’m Reading and Watching: Cutting for Stone and The Painted Veil
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amyjuliabecker
We don’t get out much, so perhaps it’s no surprise that neither Peter nor I had heard of The Painted Veil. We rented it based upon the trailer, and we weren’t disappointed. It’s a beautiful film. It’s a pretty simple story: husband, who is also a doctor (played by Ed Norton) and wife, who is…
Adultery: My Genes Made Me Do It
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amyjuliabecker
I have a new post at her.menuetics. It begins: In her new and buzzworthy book, For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage, The New York Times‘s Tara Parker-Pope examines what brain chemistry and genes have to do with happy marriages. She begins a recent Well column with a question: “Why do some men and…
Bridging the Gap: An Introduction to the Special Hope Network
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amyjuliabecker
A few months into our life with a child with Down syndrome, I realized that we live in exactly the right place at exactly the right time with exactly the right resources. We are within an hour of the best children’s hospital in the nation, a hospital that has a satellite office 15 minutes away.…
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