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  • I MOVED! 📦

    Well… kinda. I still live in Kentucky. But my newsletter has officially moved to Substack! (apparently blogging went out of style sometime during the Obama administration…) If you’ve been reading my emails for a while, not much is changing. I’ll still be sending you stories, questions, book updates, and other idle thoughts and reflections once…

  • Songs for Becky

    Exodus 34:4-8So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone. The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, â€śThe Lord, the Lord,…

  • Choosing The ‘Life Narrative’ For My Daughter Living With Trisomy 18

    Up until the last few years, Trisomy 13 and 18 have been among a few congenital syndromes that medical texts and experts deemed to be “incompatible with life.” It therefore has been a common practice for families and physicians facing this diagnosis to either choose abortions or to withhold certain medical interventions that would otherwise…

  • Introduction

    Let me open this introduction by clarifying a few points and setting your expectations at an appropriately low level. If you have made it this far into my blog, it is quite possible that you do not know who I am (except for you—Hi, Mom!). You could be reading these words from anywhere on the…