December Favorites {2024}
Here are books, podcasts, movies, shows, and essays that I enjoyed this December: 1. Episode 287: Julia Watts Belser - A Jewish Perspective on Disability. Here’s a helpful perspective on disability in…
Here are books, podcasts, movies, shows, and essays that I enjoyed this December: 1. Episode 287: Julia Watts Belser - A Jewish Perspective on Disability. Here’s a helpful perspective on disability in…
Gift wrapping has never been an easy task for Penny. Typically, she’s been relegated to the background of the wrapping extravaganza in our household—handing over supplies to her siblings or…
Amidst the morning snowfalls and twinkling lights and jolly tunes, we’ve received grim news from a few different people in recent weeks. One of my childhood friends died in her…
(Keep scrolling for video!) | Our daughter Penny danced for twelve years at Fineline Theatre Arts, which included many years of performing scenes from the Nutcracker. We moved this year,…
I sometimes beat myself up as a parent. In all honesty, I also beat myself up as a human, but on the parenting front, I think about how I let…
A few weeks ago, my husband and I visited Mass MoCA, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. One wing of the museum is devoted to the creations of James Turrell,…
We went to see The Best Christmas Pageant Ever as a family a couple of weeks ago. I’m still an even bigger fan of the 1980s, made-for-tv, low-budget, low-quality, 48-minute version,…
Step by step by step. For our daughter Penny, who has Down syndrome, the path toward adulthood and increasing independence involves many more deliberate and supported steps than it will…
These days, my writing and speaking are drawn to interdependence—the beauty of life together, of reciprocal relationships of love and care. Often, these relationships of mutuality (or, as Rosemarie Garland-Thomson called them, complementarity1) don’t just…
Apple YouTube Spotify More! How do we attend to diverse voices in our churches and society without silencing or patronizing each other? Author and professor Esau McCaulley, PhD, joins Amy…