Tag: Children
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The Night Before I Turn 40
It’s a drop past 11pm here on the East Coast, and just a few minutes away from my Fortieth birthday. I usually don’t let big, decade birthdays consume too many of my thoughts – age is just a number, as the kids say. But it’s hard not to think back on this night ten years…
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On Tragedy: Coming to Terms with Terms
My son was diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder earlier this week. While the diagnosis was not a complete surprise, to say that the news was personally devastating would be an understatement. After five years of explaining away the symptoms, after five years of hoping and anticipating that Clark would simply “outgrow” some of his…
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Why Dads Matter
It has been a long while since I’ve graced the pages of Pax Plena with a new post. Given a quiet Father’s Day Sunday here in the U.S., I couldn’t think of a better time to resurrect our ailing blog once again. Like Lazarus rising from the dead, this disease of blogging silence never quite…
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Children at Play
We took Clark to the park today. The playground equipment had all the usual trappings of a large park in the center of town, including scores of parents, kids, and pooches out for their afternoon walk. Amid the chaos, we discovered the slides fairly quickly. Clark and Gwyn spent most of the time going…
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