I’d like to take a moment to respond to your idea that it is appropriate for us to require women to carry their children to term regardless of their desires or the circumstances of conception. First of all, I am the result of an ‘unplanned’ pregnancy, so I speak from experience when it comes to [...]
When I was a kid, I didn’t have to deal with death. As the child of a young mother, my grandparents were younger than most. The first time I suffered the loss of someone close to me, it wasn’t a family member but the death of a friend’s dad when I was 19. I didn’t [...]
I haven’t worn my wedding ring in a very long time. I had perfectly valid reasons to stop wearing it. I was playing a lot of piano for a long time, and it got it the way. I was also gaining weight. A lot of weight. that made it tight on my hand. That was [...]
When we put an addition on the house, my wife had the brilliance and forethought to create a Family Room that could easily be repurposed into an apartment. As we got older, she reasoned, so would our parents. That would require us to have a place i our home for them to live, either temporarily [...]
You want your children to learn as much as they can. You want to give them as many opportunities as possible. So you send them away on school overnight trips. With this in mind, my son prepared for two wonderful travel opportunities in the span of two weeks. Of course, the day before he leaves, [...]
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