Today I found a link on Michael Hyatt’s blog to Michael Ferris’ post about how to have boiled eggs without having to shell them by hand. In nutshell: 1. Add a teaspoon of baking soda to the water as they are boiling for 12 minutes. 2. Submerge cooked eggs in in ice water. 3. Tap off each [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Wee Cook Wednesday: No-Peel Boiled Eggs!
Posted in Wee Cook Wednesday, tagged boiled egg, Wee Cook Wednesday on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Catholic Writer’s Conference Online 2010: Registration Starts October 1!
Posted in Adoption, Catholic Writer's Conference, tagged Catholic Writer's Conference, CWCO on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Miracle Mondays: “The Fiery Gift”
Posted in Adoption, tagged Adoption, America magazine on September 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today on Sarah’s FB page was a link to this article in America magazine that compares childbirth and prayer. One paragraph in particular caught my attention: “All the adorable clothes for infants, jokes about pickles and ice cream, and debates about appropriate names for children occupy the expectant woman’s mind like sitting-room company sharing a [...]
Weekend Ponderings: Doing Unto My Political Other
Posted in Adoption on September 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This weekend I was directed to a wonderful article by John Mark Reynolds entitled “Doing Unto My Political Other: 7 Suggestions for Christians in the Public Square.” The article reminded me of a couple of recent exchanges I’d had with a couple of “open records advocates,” who (though they did not bring up any new [...]
Top 3 Things Parents of Autistic Children Can Do
Posted in autism, tagged autism, Ellen Bry, Lost and Found Family, Valerie Vanaman on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak with a remarkable woman, special-needs legal advocate, Valerie Vanaman. A senior partner at Newman, Aaronson, and Vanaman, for the past forty years Valerie has defended the educational rights of special-needs children and their families. She has also served as a teaching fellow at Harvard Law School and as an attorney for [...]
Miracle Monday: Between the Dreaming and the Coming True
Posted in Adoption, tagged Adoption, Miracle Monday on September 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I opened a comment from a reader, Mei-Ling (who if memory serves is an adult adoptee, can’t remember from which country), who writes: Since you didn’t allow commentary on the other post, and I’m just too lazy to e-mail you, here goes: “Should we adoptive parents just go away quietly to lick our wounds, and wait for [...]
Today at “Mommy Monsters”: *sigh*
Posted in Adoption, tagged Adoption, triad on September 11, 2009 | Comments Off
Every once in a while I notice some incoming activity or link from a site that — to put it mildly — doesn’t think much about EMN, or the National Council for Adoption, or anyone who believes that there could be circumstances when a birth mother ought to have a say in whether she wants to [...]















