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Life is stranger than fiction. At least that’s my opinion and experience. How about you? Mark Twain famously penned the quote, “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” In a world that often talks...

Part 2 of 2….. Ten years. If you would have told me ten years ago that our life would look the way that it does today, I probably wouldn’t have believed you. At the time that Olivia was born in 2008, I was working in child welfare, we still lived in Sioux City, Iowa,...

Ten years ago this month, the hospital where my life was supposed to end in a failed abortion attempt was transformed into the hospital that holds some of the most beautiful memories of my life, when our oldest daughter, the first child of ours to seize hold of my...

With the recent tweet by a Planned Parenthood affiliate about the need for a Disney princess who has had an abortion, I was reminded of this article that I wrote six years ago, that’s still relevant today. (Six years! Our youngest daughter is now almost the same age...

In a recent article published in the Huffington Post UK, ‘When A United Nations Expert Says Everything Should Be Done To Avoid The Life Of Children Like Yours,’ Renate Lindeman, a mother of three children, two of whom have Down’s Syndrome, wrote a beautiful response...

Contentment. It’s something we’re all longing for in our lives, aren’t we? I never cease to be amazed by how commercialism tries to seize on this longing and package up the clothes, the shoes, the car, you name it, and sell us on the concept of how it will bring us...

Survivors. Not Actors. As our hearts still ache at the tragedy that unfolded recently in Florida, I know that we each have thoughts and concerns that surround the horrific event and hopes and prayers for our children’s futures as a result of it. I know that we have...

“Are you driven by fear or hope?” The words jumped off of a Facebook ad for Christopher West’s Cry of the Heart, and seemingly slapped me across the face recently. I’ve lived in fear. Fear of who I am, fear of what God was calling me to do with my life, fear of...

“Human beings are glorious,” writer Sally Kohn reflected in her May 2018 In Style magazine article, How Meeting a Former White Supremacist Changed the Way I Understood Hate. Ms. Kohn and I are on different ends of the spectrum in many beliefs, but I found this article...

“Don't judge me by the chapter of my life you're walking in on”--Anonymous. I stumbled across this quote while preparing my speech for the national CareNet Conference earlier this year, and the moment I read it, it resonated with me, both personally and...