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…
June 6th, 2009 by Heidi Hess Saxton
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…
May 23rd, 2009 by Heidi Bratton
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…
May 11th, 2009 by Elizabeth Foss
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…
May 2nd, 2009 by Heidi Bratton
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. …
April 16th, 2009 by Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B.
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…
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