Virtual Oases, July 15

• The next edition of Sunstone will be dedicated to LDS Women in the 21st century -- and they are looking for submissions.

• Start making plans to attend the Exponent II retreat in New Hampshire this September. For more details, click here (or on the "Exponent II Retreat" link on the sidebar).

• This comment on our adoption thread should be highlighted before that blog post gets "buried" in new material.
  

• Heather O: When your children's sense of place contrasts sharply with your own.

• Check out these two essays from the new Sunstone.

• LDS Historian extraordinaire Kathleen Flake is now an "On Faith" blogger for Newsweek.

• Kathy has an essay up at Literary Mama about the birth of her son, Thomas, and his Down Syndrome diagnosis. On her personal blog, she linked to this great ABC news segment about one company that is purposefully creating work for people with develomental disabilities.

• Kristine: Three Kinds of Wards

• Foxyj has a post up at Northern Lights - - which led me to her wonderful blog.

• Kiskilili: "Is there a value in addressing men and women separately?"

• Starfoxy's "Perpetual Motion Device": Particularly her last paragraph . . .