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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Paradise lost for LA Times religion reporter |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 7:43 pm |
| Tags: Los Angeles, Sexual Abuse, Grief, Theodicy, God, Christianity, Media |
| William Lobdell's story about losing his faith while covering the Catholic sex scandal for the Los Angeles Times has gotten a lot of play.The 3,272-word piece, which ran Saturday in the Times' coveted Column One slot, recounted Lobdell's born-again moment, his praying and pleading to cover religion (for the same reason I got on the beat: because |
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| Half-formed Thought |
| Published: July 14, 2007, 3:39 pm |
| Tags: Adjusting To Openness, Adoptive Parenting, Competition, Grief, Infertility |
| (Cross-posted from Production, Not Reproduction. T is my husband, Puppy is my son, K is his first mom.) Adoptive Family Members read more |
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| Good Grief: Does Wearing Snoopy Count As Wearing Fur? |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 4:15 pm |
| Tags: Fashion, Good Grief, Peanuts |
| First The Simpsons, now Charlie Brown and friends? Are fashion's latest muses cartoons? Apparently, yes! Isaac Mizrahi, Heatherette, and our favorite "bad mommy", Project Runway's Laura Bennett,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| Negative views of grief counseling unsubstantiated by research |
| Published: August 4, 2007, 4:20 am |
| Tags: Counseling, Grief |
| evidence proving that grief counseling is harmful to clients, contrary to common beliefs. The study was conducted by Dale G. Larson, PhD and William T. Hoyt, PhD.A report from 2000 claimed that almost 50 percent of "normal grievers" deteriorate as a result of grief counseling. This report has frequently been cited in both scientific |
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| What to Say to a Grieving Friend? |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 12:34 pm |
| Tags: Grief |
| A friend from college recently lost her grandfather. He had been sick for some time, but from what I understand they had been expecting him to recover.What do you say to someone who is grieving the loss of a family member? Is "I'm sorry" enough? |
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| Grief Counseling: Boerum Hill Comes To Terms With Heathchelle Split |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 3:20 pm |
| Tags: Neighborhood In Crisis, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, Clips, Grief Counseling, Top, We Hate Your Kids |
| newVideoPlayer("heath_michelle2.flv", 475, 376); As news broke that Dean Street's most famous inhabitants, Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams, had decided to end the almost three-year relationship... |
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| Helping Larry Craig Stay in Office Without Hurting Republicans |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 8:48 pm |
| Tags: Political Opinion, Craig, Larry, Piped, Stays, Grief, Moot, Announcement, Stay |
| I piped in on the Larry Craig issue when the story broke and I indicated that the people of his state should have the say in whether he stays or goes. This was all before he made the announcement that he would resign so it appeared to be a moot point. Now there is word that he might stay in the... Visit Big Dog's Weblog for the rest of the |
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| An Actor Prepares: Jake Gyllenhaal's Policy On Waterboarding Less Coherent Than Dick Cheney's |
| Published: September 14, 2007, 1:17 pm |
| Tags: An Actor Prepares, Good Grief, Jake Gyllenhaal, Policy Analysis |
| No more junkets for Jake Gyllenhaal—locking him in a hotel room at the Toronto Film Festival and quizzing him about waterboarding and torture for his upcoming film Rendition resulted in this... |
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| The Stages of Birthparent Grief |
| Published: October 8, 2007, 5:22 pm |
| Tags: Birth Parents, Adoption, Adoption Blogs, Adoption Relinquishment, Birth Parents, Birthmothers, Grief, Laura Christianson |
| a post about birth parent grief fits in a blog called Market Fads & Fashions, but there you have it. It's worth a read. For more news and information about adoption, visit www.laurachristianson.com, and check out my Exploring Adoption |
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| 'Blood and guts - and tender remembrances of home' |
| Published: October 8, 2007, 10:53 pm |
| Tags: Iraq, War, Grief, Death |
| The soldier's messages back to his wife, Diana, father, stepmother and five siblings alternated between gruesome details of the horror of battle - a dog dragging away a corpse's head, a body identified only by its shoes because nothing else remained, trucks awash with blood and guts - and tender remembrances of home. He called Diana frequently and |
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| The Stages of Birthparent Grief |
| Published: October 8, 2007, 5:22 pm |
| Tags: Birth Parents, Adoption, Adoption Blogs, Adoption Relinquishment, Birth Parents, Birthmothers, Grief, Laura Christianson |
| a post about birth parent grief fits in a blog called Market Fads & Fashions, but there you have it. It's worth a read. For more news and information about adoption, visit www.laurachristianson.com, and check out my Exploring Adoption |
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| MS and Your Feelings: Book club blog chapter 8 |
| Published: October 12, 2007, 2:42 pm |
| Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Ms Treatment, Ms Therapy, Ms Hug, Ms Vision, Ms Community, Ms Research, Book Club Blog, Ms Your Feelings, Allison Shadday, Grief |
| it not only speaks of grief in the abstract, but discusses things we may lose or have already lost. It's one thing to try to learn about grief but it's wholly another to think about some of the things we may be grieving about and didn't even realize. One of the things we should all glean from this reading is that those famous five stages |
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| Good Grief: Which One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other? |
| Published: October 15, 2007, 2:50 pm |
| Tags: Good Grief, Polls, Standardized Tests, The Sufferings Of Young Charlie |
| This weekend the New York Times showed concern for suffering artists in the Week in Review, increasingly the kid's table of the paper. This was under the rubric Ideas and Trends but strangely was... |
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| I'm tired of MS and I'm just plain tired |
| Published: October 17, 2007, 4:01 pm |
| Tags: Tysabri, Multiple Sclerosis, Ms Treatment, Ms Therapy, Humira, Infusions, Ms Hug, Ms Vision, Ms Balance, National Ms Society, Ms Community, Accessibility, Brain Lesions, Ms Research, Stem Cell Research, Ms Your Feelings, Grief, Ms Blog |
| I cannot tell you; I cannot begin to tell you how tired I am of living with multiple sclerosis I'm tired of shots and infusions and injection site reactions. I'm tired of the MRI tunnel. I'm tired of explaining why I don't have my cane one day and have it another. I'm tired of asking people for money for our cause. I'm tired I'm tired of |
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| Birth Grandparent Grief Following Adoption |
| Published: October 18, 2007, 8:00 am |
| Tags: Birth Parents, Adoption, Adoption Blogs, Adoption Loss, Birth Grandparents, Birth Parents, Grief, Laura Christianson |
| We met our infant son's birth grandparents the day after we adopted him. I recall being so giddy with delight over becoming a parent that I probably said all the wrong things to his biological grandparents and great grandparents. While they fully supported their grandson's adoption, I sensed even amidst my euphoria that they were feeling |
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