Seeing with eyes of love

"Some people don't take their vows seriously," Donnie said. "This woman did." See more here.

Hello from a long lost friend

Dear blog friends, this has been mostly a static blog for some time now since I entered law school last year. I greatly appreciate all of you who are still reading (wow, there are a lot of you!) and those of you who have emailed me with comments and questions. Keep them coming!

Child of Divorce, Child of God is now available on WORDSearch and on the Kindle. The print edition is going out of print, so the electronic versions may be your best option if you cannot find a print copy in a bookstore or online book retailer.

More accessible than ever

Child of Divorce, Child of God is now available on Read How You Want, an online bookstore that provides customized large-print editions for people with visual impairment.

Blowing into the Windy City

If you're in the Chicago area, you can hear me, live, on the radio this coming Monday, January 11, at 11 a.m. Central time, on WMBI 90.1FM. Or listen online at their web site. I'll be talking with host Nancy Turner about my book, Child of Divorce, Child of God: A Journey of Hope and Healing.

Upcoming engagements

• Beginning on Saturday, October 24, you can listen to me on Phyllis Wallace's Woman to Woman program on www.womantowomanradio.com
• Sunday, October 25 I'll be speaking to a group of divorced parents at Gateway Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina
• On December 12, you can listen to me at 8pm London time (3pm Eastern time in the US) on www.twr.uk.org. The interview will be available in the show archives after it airs.

Time for some straight talk

Time magazine has a good article on the state of the American family, including the devastating effects of divorce on children. Two snippets:

a lasting covenant between a man and a woman can be a vehicle for the nurture and protection of each other, the one reliable shelter in an uncaring world —or it can be a matchless tool for the infliction of suffering on the people you supposedly love above all others, most of all on your children...

...is marriage an institution that still hews to its old intention and function — to raise the next generation, to protect and teach it, to instill in it the habits of conduct and character that will ensure the generation's own safe passage into adulthood? Think of it this way: the current generation of children, the one watching commitments between adults snap like dry twigs and observing parents who simply can't be bothered to marry each other and who hence drift in and out of their children's lives — that's the generation who will be taking care of us when we are old.

Jon & Kate + 8 children of divorce

Diane Singer, one of my fellow bloggers at The Point has weighed in on the reality show that will apparently follow 8 new children of divorce:

Though I have seen only a few of the episodes, I find the news of the Gosselins' impending divorce a cause to grieve -- for these children and for this couple, who seem to think wealth and fame are more important than marriage and family. How I wish Jon and Kate would turn off the cameras, get into marriage counseling, and -- for the sake of their eight children -- act like adults rather than glory hounds.