Choices for 100 Bloggers

The theme for the month of July is choice over at 100 Bloggers. Phil has set out the objectives. Now what shall I choose to write about? Stay tuned here, and I'll let you know when it is ready.

Juxtaposition

Susan Senator writes a wonderful viewpoint essay in the Sunday Boston Globe Magazine titled "A Wanted Child". She opens her essay with: It is part of being human to wonder how our lives could have been different, if only this or that had not happened. As the mother of a fairly severely autistic 17-year-old, I have certainly wondered what my life would have been like without him. Read the full essay here. The same issue of the magazine had an article about a few transgender students at what is remaining of the Seven Sisters colleges. When a she graduates as a he, is it still a school for girls? Read the full story here. Choice. Choices. One mother's choice. Several student's choices.