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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.…
The Gift of Children
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amyjuliabecker
A short reflection the day after Mother’s Day: “The ethic of giftedness, under siege in sports, persists in the practice of parenting. But here, too, bioengineering and genetic enhancement threaten to dislodge it. To appreciate children as gifts is to accept them as they come, not as objects of our design, or products of our…
Being a Mom: Less Happy, More Joyful?
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amyjuliabecker
I have a new post at Patheos in anticipation of Mother’s Day. It begins: Yesterday I heard Betsy Stevenson, of the Wharton School of Business, talking about happiness and being a Mom. She said, on Marketplace, “There is an unhappy fact to ponder this Mother’s Day: Women with children are less happy than similar women…
What I’m Reading: Flannery O’Connor
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amyjuliabecker
I turned in my thesis last Friday night. Well, kind of. I finished my thesis last Friday night and submitted it by email only to discover on Monday that I had submitted a draft from twelve hours earlier. A draft complete with notes like “INSERT QUOTE HERE,” no title page, no footnotes. Thankfully, my gracious…
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