New Glasses: It Matters What I Think
Penny is getting new glasses, after 15 years of more or less the same ones. We’ve changed the prescription but not the frames, per her request. But she has recently…
Penny is getting new glasses, after 15 years of more or less the same ones. We’ve changed the prescription but not the frames, per her request. But she has recently…
Hello and welcome! I wanted to introduce myself once more: I write a lot. I have been writing posts of some sort for the internet for 18 years now. It’s…
I have three different sets of books. There are the early morning spiritual books, the ones that stay with my journal and my Bible. Then there is the non-fiction one…
Last weekend I mentioned to our kids that March 21 was World Down Syndrome Day. I reminded them that a few years ago, Marilee thought we should celebrate this day…
I’ve been wrestling lately with the difference between my limitations and my limiting beliefs. As I look ahead to our upcoming move, I don’t want to succumb to outdated gender…
On World Down Syndrome Day, Jillian Benfield, author of The Gift of the Unexpected, talks with me about whether it is hard to be the parent of a child with…
I love World Down Syndrome Day. It’s a day to simply pause and celebrate the goodness of a world with people with Down syndrome in it. It’s a day to…
So a few weeks ago, Peter texted our family chat and asked everyone to share a screenshot of their screen usage numbers for the previous week. Screen Time Check-In I’m…
I have struggled with understanding the tides. I’ve looked up scientific explanations. I’ve asked teacher-friends to explain them to me. I’ve memorized the tide charts and known how far the…
What novels have you read, recently or in a long-ago English class, that involve characters with Down syndrome or other intellectual disabilities? I’ve been thinking for a long time about…