Archive for April, 2011
Protected: Adoption series: Jim & Kristen Weathersby, and adopting from Guatemala
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April 20th, 2011Pep talk from mom: find meaning, serve others, survive
Twitter has proved an essential tool for communication in the wake of Japan’s series of disasters, when phone lines and other forms of communication have not been accessible or functioning. Not my mom. Translator Aya Watanabe has been translating tweets coming out of Japan in the weeks following the devastation they have been facing. I [...]
April 18th, 2011“I want to say, this machine isn’t just history.” The garment industry in history, and in our lives today
A denim factory in Kaiping, in southern China, where whole days are spent doing what I could barely do for two hours. Photo by Bert van Dijk. If you ever complain about the price of your jeans, I want you to find a sewing machine and try to hem a pair. Granted, the industrial size [...]
April 11th, 2011New study results find a shocker: being a drug skeptic is a healthy thing
Logo for the Women’s Health Initiative, which has been providing medical research and findings since 1991, and has vastly contributed to what we know about women’s health today. The Women’s Health Initiative, which has been researching and publishing findings on women’s health since 1991, has recently come out with some new results, involving the doses [...]
April 10th, 2011A betrayal of identity: the dramatic unveiling of baby-stealing in Spain, and the lives that have been forever scarred
I have been thinking a lot about adoption lately. It is a subject that really fascinates me. I like the idea of scrambling things we think we know–like biology and genetics and “family”–and giving them far greater parameters. Over Christmas break, I read a book about the diaspora of Chinese daughters over the past twenty [...]
April 4th, 2011