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Oct 13, 2011
Integrating Faith & Psychiatry, Part 5: Narcissism & Relationships
by Christine A. Sc...
Dealing with the narcissists in our lives is never easy, but there is hope for improving these difficult relationships, says Laity Leadership Institute Senior Fellow Allan Josephson, M.D. Narcissism develops out of early...
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Sep 14, 2011
A Better Way
by Ann Kroeker
As my son awkwardly swept the kitchen floor, I debated whether or not to say something. If he's managing to collect some of the dust and dirt, should I step in and recommend a more efficient and effective method? After...
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Sep 1, 2011
Baby's Got Down Syndrome, 4: She Has My Legs
by Ann Kroeker
Late in her pregnancy, The Unknown Contributor had many fears about what a child with Down syndrome might be like. Would this child of hers have a flat face, stubby limbs, giant tongue and droopy everything, like the...
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Aug 31, 2011
Baby's Got Down Syndrome, 3: Seeing in the Raw
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by TUC
She has lovely grey-blue sparkling eyes with thick dark rings that are wider on the sides than the top and bottom, like a cat. They take on the world independently from one another, except on special occasions when she...
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Aug 24, 2011
Baby's Got Down Syndrome, 2: Crossing the NICU Styx
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by TUC
Five hours after my daughter was born, strangers in scrubs came and arrested her, carrying her down into a world where life is in limbo. Her crimes: a broken heart and a narrow aorta. I followed her and found myself on...
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Aug 21, 2011
The Museum Of Mom
by SheilaSL
After the death of her mother, Sheila Lagrand's dad packed up the life he'd shared with his wife and moved it into a new house. Sheila takes us with her on a beautiful visit to that new house, as she sifts through...
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Aug 18, 2011
A Good Diminishing
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by Gordon Atkinson
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time...
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Aug 17, 2011
Baby's Got Down Syndrome, 1: Lunch at Pizza Hut
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by TUC
In my dream I am sitting in Pizza Hut because that is where I first saw her. She wanders over to my table with her big blue eyes locked on mine. She has curly brown hair... curls... rare for a child with Down syndrome. She...
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Jul 21, 2011
How to See What's Right in Front of You
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by Gordon Atkinson
I have a friend who is 13 years older than me. When his daughter Jenny was in college, my daughters were young children. One day I asked him what he would give to have Jenny as a five-year-old again for one day. Just so...
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Jul 20, 2011
What Peels Life Back
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by Ann Voskamp
On the way to her tonsillectomy, we laugh, she and I, talk of what flavor of ice cream she’d most like afterwards, when it’s all finished and she’s home, what books I might read aloud to her, and when it...
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