Sometimes when I speak or write about adoption, people approach me and ask me what to do when one half of a couple (usually but not always the husband) isn’t open to raising an adopted or foster child. Usually I…

While waiting in the car for my 19-year-old daughter to get out of work, I was trying hard to entertain her 17-month-old brother. Not finding many toys in the car, I gave him my purse, which he dug into as if…

I’ve gotten several e-mails recently asking parenting advice. I don’t know if I’ll ever be comfortable answering those requests. I’m learning as I go and I don’t presume to know enough to comment on someone else’s home situation with an…

A few years ago we took a family trip to the Grand Canyon during a winter vacation.  We spent six months preparing for the journey, studying the history and geography of the Southwest, and carefully making all the travel arrangements. …

Readers will either love this book [Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.  385 pages. Hardback.  April 2009. etex ISBN 978-0-618-67018-5.  $28.00] or hate it.  Very few will be in the middle.  James Carroll, a former Catholic priest, who is the author…

[Editor’s note: The author explains her family’s Lenten commitment to take the Love Dare here . Regular updates were posted all through Lent. Click here to catch up on previous posts.]

Write a vow to your family.

“Where you go, I will go, and…

[Editor’s note: The author explains her family’s Lenten commitment to take the Love Dare here . Regular updates will be posted all through Lent. Click here to catch up on previous posts. Due to CE staff scheduling, we will not be able…

[Editor’s note: The author explains her family’s Lenten commitment to take the Love Dare here . Regular updates will be posted all through Lent. Click here to catch up on previous posts. Due to CE staff scheduling, we will not be able…

[Editor’s note: The author explains her family’s Lenten commitment to take the Love Dare here . Regular updates will be posted all through Lent. Click here to catch up on previous posts. Due to CE staff scheduling, we will not be able…

Editor’s note: The author explains her family’s Lenten commitment to take the Love Dare here . Regular updates will be posted all through Lent. Click here to catch up on previous posts. Due to CE staff scheduling, we will not be able…