The Boy With a Broken Heart is Born (Day Six)

May 7, 2012 By 6 Comments
Avery's first day as an oxygen-breathing member of the human race.

I wrote a story a while back about a family in our church back in Pueblo whose baby was due just after we left town. Early in the pregnancy, doctors diagnosed little Avery with HLHS, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. There was a good chance he’d need surgery in utero or immediately after being born, and [...]

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On Asperger Syndrome and Broken Hearts

January 31, 2012 By 8 Comments

Our son, Mattias, is eight years old. Everyone thinks their kid is special, and in a lot of ways, he’s just a regular kid. He loves fart jokes, enjoys riding his scooter and is obsessed with video games. But we’ve known he was different from a very early age. Mattias started reading almost as soon [...]

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Did Saturday Night Live’s Tim Tebow Skit Go Too Far?

December 23, 2011 By 4 Comments

Living in Colorado, I get more than a healthy dose of Tim Tebow Mania. I’ve written about the Tebow phenomenon before, but now, Saturday Night live has chimed in with their own skit: Some, such as the perpetually offended Pat Robertson, came out guns blazing after the skit aired, saying it was an affront both [...]

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