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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 […]

My Miracle Boy

We’ve finally unpacked all the pictures. They’ve been sitting in boxes, and now most of them are hung up on the wall. While we were unpacking them, Blake was asking all kinds of questions about who everyone was. He’s always trying to piece together what our family looks like.
He knows that my parents are […]

Women and Politics: Not our Turf?

Hear me out before you condemn me as a regressive believer in biology-is-destiny.
The press coverage of the Democratic nomination process has a lot of us wondering how folks who are paid to be analytical and objective can be so swept up by Obama, and so ready to toss Hillary overboard. I just read an article […]

Quantum Blogging

The most simplistic interpretation of quantum physics (and that’s the only one I have) is that the behavior of sub-atomic particles changes as a result of being observed. I am living that now through this blog, and wonder about the value of the blog in general.
This world, for reasons of self-preservation, is frequently one of […]

Stilted by Sin #6

Envy. It’s the sixth of the seven deadly sins. I have a big issue with it, and it swallows me up at times more than any of the others.
Or, sure, I can eat a few too many cookies sometimes. And I’m no stranger to sloth and wrath, but, envy is the thing that keeps me […]

Thank God I’m a Country Girl. YEE HAW!!

My 21 adult years in New York City almost wiped out childhood memories made in a far less glamorous place. When I was 4, my family moved from Jersey City to Suffern NY, a suburb about 30 miles northwest of NYC. I lived there for 15 years, until I transferred to college in New York […]

My Sister Babs

I’m the youngest of 8 kids. The closest in age to me is my sister, Babs. Her real name is Barbara (named after my Mom who probably thought that was her last chance to name a daughter, until I came along three years later). Babs is a singularly unique person. Brilliant and wildly successful in […]

Old Wineskins

I am keenly aware that my minister links to my blog from his, The Farthest Shore. As such, I feel kind of hesitant at times to express some of my thoughts about faith. But, sometimes I feel that being an agitator, and making folks uneasy, comes so easily to me that it must have something […]

A Mark in Time

Tomorrow, my son Blake goes for his first day of Kindergarten. We have spent the last few days together — an unusual occurrence since he’s been in day care. I wanted him to leave day care for a bit so that he could have some transition time, and I could drink in all of […]