Saying Goodbye to their Childhood Home
On Monday, we said goodbye to our home. It was always on loan to us. Our house comes with Peter’s position as a Head of School. In a few months,…
On Monday, we said goodbye to our home. It was always on loan to us. Our house comes with Peter’s position as a Head of School. In a few months,…
Who do you follow on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter? I follow a host of other writers, parents of kids with Down syndrome and other disabilities, social justice activists, and people of…
Free Resource 5 screen time practices for Families | Summer Edition When it comes to family use of technology, I want to nudge our family, and yours, towards creation and…
Today, people across the nation will celebrate Juneteenth—a holiday I only learned about in recent years. As Jemar Tisby writes, “Juneteenth may be the perfect holiday for Black people to…
Peter and I both remember the dinner where we admitted to each other that we weren’t sure we ever wanted kids. We liked our little family as it was, just…
The past month has included three kids finishing the school year at three different schools, Peter coming to the end of his tenure at a fourth school, and getting ready…
How do we prepare now to die well? Can we reimagine care of the dying in all of its messiness as a gift? Dr. Lydia Dugdale, a medical ethicist, internal medicine…
We were married 24 years ago today. It’s really hard to find words to convey the gratitude and wonder I feel, not only when I think about getting to be…
I’m so grateful to readers who have reviewed To Be Made Well on Amazon and Goodreads, sent me personal messages, and told others about the book. It ALL makes a…
She wanted it to be a surprise. So when we showed up to watch Penny on stage for her annual Spring Dance Fest, we were expecting the usual. Penny would…