Let me tell you a story about birth: A girl came home one day after school and the walls bent around her, wrapped her all up absorbed her back into the womb. That was how it happened. Except, the floor was covered in broken glass and she touched it and got her fingers all cut […]
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What if I told you over half a million teenagers between the ages of 15-19 became pregnant in the United States a year? Would you believe it? In 2010, 614,000 girls in the U.S. became pregnant, and that is a dramatic decrease from the highest teen pregnancy rate in the 1990s. It’s a shocking number. […]
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The 1799 birth certificate has a poem in its design. We read it, admire the art, and then my daughter asks, “Daddy, what’s my birth poem?” I’m oddly embarrassed to admit, “You don’t have one.” She asks, “Have you looked?” She knows that sometimes I’m not the most observant leaving for work wearing mismatched […]
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