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The Impotence of Worry

I have joined a Yahoo! group for US families adopting from Ethiopia. My reasons are to gather information from folks about their experiences. I’ve gleaned a few hard useful facts that will help us ease our child’s journey (when that moment arrives), but for the most part, this group appears dedicated to assuaging the worries […]

Speech, Language, Development, Biology, and Why This World Makes No Sense

My son’s psychiatrist is going out of business (I guess you have to say “closing her practice”) because she can get paid only 37% of the time from the insurance companies. She is a developmental pediatrician AND a child psychiatrist so charges health insurance as a primary care physician. I like that mental health treatment […]

“Off With Their Heads!” “Give us Barabbas!” and Other Musings About The Culture of Retribution

I am a day late in the May 1 Blogging Against Disablism event. Life intervened on my schedule, and I’ve been working on this post for a few days. Although this is tardy, I offer it as my contribution.
A little over a year ago, a student named Cho Seung-Hui went on a shooting rampage at […]