Thanks…

… for listening to my story from yesterday. I’m not sure how to resume regular blogging after an entry like that, but I shall slog on somehow. I think I’ve depressed poor Eric no end 😦 I shall attempt now to insert myself back into the regular stream of my life… :shakespeare:

Yesterday

Yesterday, seventeen years ago, I lost a baby. 20 weeks (of a prospective 40 weeks) of pregnancy is the cutoff between “miscarriage” and “stillbirth.” I lost Angel at 21 or 22 weeks. (“Angel” was the name for her that flew into my mind as the anesthesiologist was giving me the epidural to ease the pains … Continue reading Yesterday

Something to make you want to cry

The Christian Paradox (Harpers.org): Here is a statistic that does matter: Three quarters of Americans believe the Bible teaches that “God helps those who help themselves.” That is, three out of four Americans believe that this uber-American idea, a notion at the core of our current individualist politics and culture, which was in fact uttered … Continue reading Something to make you want to cry