It all started in Chitsungo Village in the Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe, where I was born inside a tiny mud hut with the help of village midwives. I consider this as a humble…
I was born doomed to life without achievements. At least that was the thinking from my small village, where almost everyone accepted the traditional belief that disabilities are the result of a curse.…
Eight months ago, my 9-year-old son tearfully shared with me that “his whole life, he had wanted to be a girl”. Pressed by the therapist (who, thank G-d, was in the room with…
“Just let me know if you need extra blankets for the daddy bed.” I smiled and responded, “thanks so much,”to the well-intentioned nurse as she left me alone with my first baby,…
Remember how exciting birthdays used to be? Yeah, me neither. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I still love my birthday and manage to celebrate for a whole month. But…
Mom Genes. No, not the high-waisted, dorky, denim kind. The kind that live on chromosomes and with a roll of the dice determine the characteristics we inherit from those who came…
“Oh my gosh, she should not be wearing that shirt.”With disdain, remarks like this are whispered everyday on my college campus, numerous times a day, by many different people”particularly girls. To some credit,…
“”¦I was born missing my left forearm and hand. When I was a teenager I decided that I was going to teach myself to play the guitar. Learning to play the guitar was…
In my experience, there’s something magical about changing diapers with only one hand. My wife thinks it’s less magical, and more”¦totally unfair. I can’t explain the science behind it, but every one of…
I am the Stacey that Meg refers to in her blog “Pay it Forward.”Meg and I are good friends. She usually takes the bus to work in NYC and I take the…
Our situation starts as most family holidays do”¦ For some months we had meticulously planned how we would spend our time at Disneyland Paris for what would be this years “big holiday’. We’d…