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Pittsburgh Magazine
Perspectives: Making Space
A playground trip causes Amy Whipple, whose son has extra needs, to reflect on how simple — and charitable — it can be to make space for someone else.
Pittsburgh Magazine
What Does Adult Education Look Like in Pittsburgh?
Literacy Pittsburgh’s mission goes beyond teaching people to read — but that mission remains a pressing concern.
Pittsburgh Magazine
A Matter of Pride: Delta Foundation's Struggles with Success
Within the span of 10 years, the Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh has brought the city’s annual Pride festival to previously unimaginable heights. That growth, however, has left some members of the community behind — and unhappy.
Pittsburgh Magazine
Choosing A Family
Frequent PM contributor Amy Whipple always intended to become a foster parent. Now the adoptive mother of a 3-year-old boy, she shares the story of her new family.
VICE
This Type of Blindness Technically Isn’t an Eye Problem
“The child sees what we see, but they can’t interpret it.”
Pittsburgh Magazine
Made in Pittsburgh: 5 Great Ideas, Emily Kennedy
Modern-day creation in Pittsburgh doesn’t just involve physical products; we also have a knack for hatching new ideas that can solve problems in innovative, unexpected ways. These locally based thinkers are applying big thoughts to bigger problems.
Emily Kennedy, The idea: To develop software that helps law enforcement fight sex trafficking in ways that humans alone cannot.
VICE
Let's All Laugh at How Depressed We Are for a Sec - Tonic
Let's All Laugh at How Depressed We Are for a Sec -...
Medium
My son is not a burned-down house – Amy Whipple – Medium
One July afternoon, I arrive for daycare pickup to find my two-year-old’s eyes rolled — seemingly stuck — up and to the right.
The Guardian
Facing my fear: I'm a hopeless extrovert, and I adopted a nonverbal child | Amy Whipple
I didn’t realize when I opened my home and my heart that I’d also be opening myself to the type of silence I’d spent the rest of my life avoiding...
The Guardian
On Mother's Day and every day, I'm grateful to all who help raise my child | Amy Whipple
My foster son and I are always surrounded by women who love and support us, hold us up and cheer us on...
The Guardian
I helped raise everyone else's kids. Now I can raise one of my own | Amy Whipple
I was always the non-familial caretaker, but I had more than enough love – and resources, and skills – to bring a child into my home...
storyburgh.org
“In this house there isn’t chaos” – Storyburgh
“In this house there isn’t chaos” – Storyburgh
Pittsburgh Magazine
Unusual Events & Things Good to Know in Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh ...
This month: 412 Food Rescue, the Pittsburgh Tea Festival and Honors to Prom