The following column appeared in The Herald-Sun in November 2013: Jesse McBane and Patricia Mann saw a future together. In 1971, he was an N.C. State student and she attended nursing school at Watts Hospital – now part of the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics…
The following column appeared in The Herald-Sun on Nov. 16, 2013: My friend Colin – another adoptive parent – asked over lunch last week whether I felt like a dad now. “Has it really sunk in?” It’s been nearly six months since Catherine and I adopted John Michael in Asheville and brought him home to…
This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in 2013: Colleen Kilsheimer once thought her son Stephen, born with Down Syndrome, never would know how to spell his own last name or slide his arms into the sleeves of a coat to bundle himself up against the St. Louis winter. But he surprised her. He could spell…
This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in 2013: Click. This week, we turned off most of our cable service. We’ve pared back to the basic broadcast network package and internet. Part of it is simply a family cost-cutting measure – it should save our household about $1,000 during the next year to go without the…
