In the Papers

Of all the articles I've read this last week or so--from election op-eds to the blind Chinese lawyer's changing circumstances to the ones below--the one that touched me the most was about the death of a baby with a terminal illness and the bucket list her parents helped her achieve before the end.  To learn more about Avery, her parents, and SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy), please visit her blog.

• Yet another article, as it seems like there are so many, about the family dinner table, this time about conversation.  We've adopted the "rose and thorn" discussions used by the First Family (it's kinda like UU joys and concerns).
• Why you really should never sit down!
• Mindfulness as taught at Google
• OBE and NDEs--find out about those acronyms here and the controversy it caused here and the rebuttal here (and I think it keeps going)
• One woman's journey through deathbed experiences, with her parents
• Lesbian feminist cartoonist Alison Bechdel talks about her process and her new book
• An Op-Ed on the effect of not having a Pulitzer winner, by Anne Pathchett
• "Lefties aren't Special After All"--just don't tell Sis!
• An informative review on a book about the first sexual revolution
• Coping with scars and the awkwardness of cancer 
• Of God and baseball at NYU
• Living in a museum
• A floral tribute