This year on Mark’s death anniversary my son visited his grave and my daughter posted the annual tribute to her father on Facebook. This year was probably the 1st time in a while I didn’t post about Mark’s death on Facebook. To be honest I forgot until I saw my daughter’s post...
Of course, the scientists of old were correct that human conception requires both a biological father and a biological mother—it does take two to tango. Their fault comes in thinking that this makes the mother a mere incubator. Both parents are genetically nec...
or a “genome.” These masks interact with one another through processes analogous to biological evolution, such as selection, crossover (recombination), and mutation.
Only very recently did I discover that a few of them are biological ancestors, too. (I will tell about that in the next blog post.) Looking back in English social and religious history, in an effort to understand the beginning of early Quaker movement, I learned about the Puritans who ...
Lie #1: Sex is a biological need. The Truth:A man can desire sex, but he does not require it to be happy and fulfilled; he has no deep and uncontrollable hunger that is inevitably going to drive him to sin.2 (Jesus, fully man, was tempted in all things as we are, yet without ...
biological father feel almost as absent as he is, but her narrative raises crucial questions of self-representation, the intricacies of transracial adoption, and the nuances of group membership. She crystallizes well-founded resentments and deeply painful revelations without saddling the reader with ...
My biological father is dead, and the father who raised me abandoned my mother and subsequently me, and has not has not come back since I was sixteen. And so when I realized that, I broke into a million pieces, that I’m not able to even taste the fruit of my labor because every...
Having a job also kept me out of the house. I grew up mostly with my mother, and I never knew my biological father. My younger sister, younger brother and I went through a series of stepfathers. My relationship with those men was almost always fraught, and I was always looking for rea...
From a young age, Benjamin would be known as Frank; at times, he would go by Frank Morgan Derk, incorporating his mother’s maiden name along with his father’s surname (possibly to differentiate him from other relatives sharing his name). From his boyhood, Frank excelled at both ...
Hi Kitty, Stephen here. That is extraordinary after all these years, that finally you know who your father was. I have been doing some sleuthing, and I have a possibility to offer you as to who ‘Anne’ was, assuming that it was her correct name. There is an Anne B*, who married...