The foster mother (SVP, voir plus bas pour la version Française) We are blessed by the mother who gave up the child. – Lucinda Williams. As an adoptive father, that lyric makes me cry every time. My last two trips to the United States were to Burlington, Vermont and New York City. Both times we [...]
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Tabula rasa? Not quite.
Here is something I published last week as a follow-up to my last post. I’ll add a few comments at the end. From whence our characters? (Source: D’où vient notre charactère? Journal Métro, May 22, 2012) Voir plus bas pour version Française. In my last column I wrote about the challenge of having – or [...]
A child and a half
There is nothing more moving than seeing a baby being born. If you can watch a video of that without crying, you’re far more stoic than I can ever be. Just seeing a delivery of some stranger’s kid is enough to make my face wet. I can’t imagine how powerful it would be to watch the [...]
The value of the pursuit
My first car was a 1973 Volkswagen Beetle. I bought it in 1981 when I was a student. I had no money in my budget for repairs so I bought a book called; How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Instructions for the Complete Idiot. It worked. I was indeed a complete [...]
