Heroes and Heroines
Men, could you hold down the fort while your wife braved the storm to rescue a stranded family member? A few days ago, there was a terrible snowstorm. My home was pretty much cut off in a torrential...
View ArticleHow to Be Depressed and Not Lose Your Marriage
Heather Gray shares 7 straightforward strategies to keep your marriage alive in spite of depression. —– Being depressed and married can feel like a suffocating prison. You’re miserable, maybe angry,...
View ArticleAmerican Violence: Will Black Sons Die Before They’re Killed?
Is violence In America the result of the death within us? – It’s so hard to watch the riots in Baltimore knowing the long term devastation it will have on communities that are already hurting. It was...
View ArticleThe Single Woman with Guillain-Barré
— (Names have been changed.) Admitted to the Hospital: February 29, 2016 My neurologist was a man around my parents’ age named Dr. Miller. He might be a bit younger than my parents, but still a baby...
View ArticleBetween Safe and Real: Talking to Your Kids about Natural Disasters
Embed from Getty Images Northern California is on fire. Houston was under water last month and Puerto Rico is still without power. Natural disasters occur in every part of the world. Some places seem...
View ArticleI Couldn’t Protect Them
Embed from Getty Images — I Couldn’t Protect Them Joseph Fowler, Bloomington, IN From Dads Behaving DADLY: 67 Truths, Tears, and Triumphs of Modern Fatherhood Copyright © 2014 Motivational Press....
View ArticleGood or Good Enough?
— Eleven years ago, I sat in the dark corner of a neonatal intensive care unit weeping. My two-week-old daughter lay 10 yards away in an incubator, plugged into machines, with an IV connected to a vein...
View ArticleWhat It Is Like to Be on a Ventilator for Three Weeks
The thing I remember most about being told “We have to intubate you now” was a feeling of relief. By the time it got to that point, it was clear I wasn’t going to be able to breathe on my own....
View ArticleLight at the End of the Tunnel
You should leave the road followed, You need to pave one for yourself scooped. Through cliffs, bushes, among the thorns, In burning sand, shivering cold, blinding light, dark solitude, drowning storm,...
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