Life Is Stranger Than Fiction

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...

Restoration-Part 2 of 2

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,...

Restoration-Part 1 of 2

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...

There’s No Going to Disneyland After Abortion

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...

A Mother’s Reflection on Abortion and Disability

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

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...