MeFi post: You look familiar.

As a mother of four, three born at home, one before the midwife arrived, I find it hard to imagine mistaking another's baby for one's own. On the other hand, pregnancy and childbirth so prepare one to welcome a newborn that maybe one could be blinded to that switched baby's (obvious?) otherness.

As an adoptee, married to another adoptee, my feelings and thoughts on subverted/substituted identity run large. And twins are particularly interesting not least for all their... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by emhutchinson at 6:26 PM on June 2, 2008

MeFi post: Tilling Word and Land

Several years ago I was honored to encounter Wendell Berry outside the SF Book Festival and shake his hand. Never having been a groupie of any sort I was amazed by how moving this encounter was for me. Around that time I had given my husband a North Point Press broadside of an excerpt of Berry's 1983 "Standing by Words" on the subject of love. An anniversary present.

"Because love is not abstract, it does not lead to trends or percentages or general... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by emhutchinson at 12:55 PM on April 10, 2008