parenthood

March 2016

March 15, 2016
My good friend Sally has been traveling to the West Bank for a dozen years as...
March 10, 2016
I need to make room for confession that goes deeper than my grimy kitchen floor...

January 2016

January 16, 2016
Gratitude is having a moment in our culture. Lifestyle gurus, including Oprah, tout the positive...

December 2015

December 24, 2015
This post was originally published on the Episcopal Café web site on January 21, 2010, and has...

August 2015

August 03, 2015
We must believe that it's necessary to go on with small acts of daily care...

July 2015

July 18, 2015
I've been on a wonderful family vacation and recovering from the whirlwind end of the school...

June 2015

June 13, 2015
I will always remember that terrible June day in 2009. But I’ve reached a point...

April 2015

April 22, 2015
Besides making people feel defensive for experiencing the fundamentally human urge to conceive and bear...

March 2015

March 26, 2015
As I cradled my third newborn in his first hours of life, I was seized...

January 2015

January 29, 2015
I wonder if, as our children grow and their increasingly complicated needs outgrow our capacities...

December 2014

December 16, 2014
Three perspectives on why holiday gifts and giving traditions need to be thoughtful, meaningful, and...

November 2014

November 21, 2014
Every few months, a story pops up about a new frontier in reproductive medical technologies:...

October 2014

October 31, 2014
My two younger kids were feeling nostalgic the other night. While they have long been in...

September 2014

September 08, 2014
It's normal for me to be less productive in the final weeks of August, as...

May 2014

May 21, 2014
This assumption—that a life marked by suffering is not worth living—leads us to believe that...
May 14, 2014
It makes sense that God became incarnate as a man. Not because God is one...
May 07, 2014
Eight years ago, when my three children were still very young, we traveled to Omaha...
May 06, 2014
“Look at those fingers! And her toes! So long and skinny…just like yours, Ellen.” I...

April 2014

April 28, 2014
Saturday night, as we drove south on Route 9  in the rainy twilight, a billboard...

February 2014

February 20, 2014
We progressive Christians like to roll our eyes at the Roman Catholics for their official...
February 14, 2014
Our Valentine's Day celebrations are even more pathetic understated than usual this year. Many years, Daniel...
February 10, 2014
I love my minivan for lots of reasons having to do with convenience, but also...
February 05, 2014
Our kitchen renovation has been going on for one entire day, and I'm already tired...
February 04, 2014
Last weekend, I went on a one-night retreat with my church's vestry. (In an Episcopal...

January 2014

January 29, 2014
Next week, we start a major kitchen renovation. I promise this will not morph into...
January 23, 2014
In using genetic screening to ensure that our baby would not inherit my painful bone...
January 22, 2014
I've avoided writing about abortion for a while. It's an issue tangential to my core...

December 2013

December 17, 2013
Having a body that defies cultural norms as mine does (it is crooked, uneven, lumpy,...

November 2013

November 26, 2013
This past weekend, my church parish hall resonated with the voices of young actors and...
November 21, 2013
Last week, writing for Everyday Feminism, Erin Tatum offered a terrific list of 10 Ways to Avoid...
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