Adopting a Child with Down Syndrome
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Tina Salvador for a summer series highlighting writers who focus on disability. In this post Tina shares about adopting a child with Down syndrome. Our story is not the story of a family pregnant with a child and receiving...
The Lonely Battle of Special Needs
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Mike Berry for a summer series highlighting great writers who focus on disability, adoption, and parenting. Defeated. Frustrated. Lonely. Tired. Done. Like a spin-cycle set on the top speed, those words flashed through my...
Why I’m Writing About Parenthood (the Show)
I’m going to write about a TV show and why I loved it. You might think it has nothing to do with what I write about, but I promise you, it does. It’s not often that you sit down to watch a family drama where you identify so intimately with the messy, and...
The last time
I walk across the brown hallway. The yellowish dim lights of the orphanage cast shades as I make my way through the door. On my hip, my new daughter rests awkwardly, we haven’t figured out how we fit together yet. I break out of the building, scared. I know Nina is...
I Suffer From Depraved Indifference, and So Do You
I suffer form depraved indifference, and so do you. It is not that we don’t care, we care. But we go to bed and we sleep just fine. There are other lives around us, but they are not directly related to ours, they are not directly affecting our lives. But one...
Ellen Stumbo writes and speaks about finding beauty in brokenness with gritty honesty and openness. She's passionate about sharing the real – sometimes beautiful and sometimes ugly – aspects of faith, parenting, special needs, and adoption. Ellen’s writing has appeared on Focus on the Family, LifeWay, MomSense, Not Alone, Mamapedia and the Huffington Post.