I’ve been a little low the past two days, and I know it’s directly related to the 24/7 kind of schedule I’m keeping with Liliana. I’m fully aware that I need to remember how good I have it, and that I chose this hands-on motherhood path for a reason. So my thoughts have been on […]
Advent
News Flash! There are some chances to win an advanced reading copy of Eve online, if you’d like to enter your name into the pile. The deadline is December 31st for both of them. One is at Library Thing Early Reviewers. Scroll down to find Eve. Another is at Good Reads. Good luck! Today, I’m […]
The National Museum of Art & Ukrainian Food, Part 1
I wake up crying. I’m on the tail-end of a dream about the little girl we met yesterday. I watch as her caregivers hold her close and tell her that her mama and papa said “no”–they didn’t want her–and I’m so consumed with grief and sorrow for her sake that I cannot bear it. The […]
The Samaritan’s Dilemma, Part 3
Is giving ingrained in us? Do we have to do it? Just because we know it’s right? A couple of stories from The Samaritan’s Dilemma: Should Government Help Your Neighbor. Here, the author Deborah Stone, quotes the “Metropolitan Diary” of the New York Times: “Ned Helfand was walking past Madison Square Garden recently when a […]
The Samaritan’s Dilemma, Part 2
Is there such a thing as altruism? True altruism? I’m a little farther along in The Samaritan’s Dilemma: Should Government Help Your Neighbor? by Deborah Stone. The chapter I’m reading now is about altruism–does it really exist? Thomas Hobbes (1651) felt that every act of kindness is really just a form of caring for one’s […]