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Peter and I have a weekly ritual. It usually occurs on Thursday nights, when my mom comes to visit her grandchildren and we have a free babysitter. But it started even before we had kids, when we moved into a dorm with thirty boys and realized that we had to get away from the incessant…

I’ve written before about how I hope and pray for Penny that she will live a “full” life, even if the fullness comes in unconventional ways (Full or Functional?). The idea of a “full life” came up in a number of comments on Motherlode last week, and most people used the phrase to describe the…

I know. You know my answer to the question already. But the purpose of this post is to point you to Emily Colson’s new book, Dancing with Max. I have a review of it in this month’s Christianity Today magazine: “A Gifting Child.” Although the review is written with a Christian audience in mind, I…

I’ve found myself in the center of a squall this past week. A squall of my own making. When I wrote about my choice not to screen the baby in my womb for Down syndrome, I didn’t expect it to draw any attention other than readers of this blog. But Lisa Belkin, of the New…
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