Penny’s PATH Process: Planning for Life After High School
Once a year, a group of people from Penny’s school, family, and community gather together with her to talk about her hopes and dreams for the future through a process…
Once a year, a group of people from Penny’s school, family, and community gather together with her to talk about her hopes and dreams for the future through a process…
5 sure signs of middle age: —Our teenagers tuck me into bed every night. —Comfort matters so much more than fashion. —Our kids provide regular advice on how to be…
It was quite a gift to watch the Harlem Dance Theatre with Penny on Thursday. First of all, the dancing itself was beautiful and powerful and fun and interesting. But…
The final one out of five Beckers on her way to fully vaccinated!
I got to hold a baby yesterday. A bright-eyed baby who smells soft and sweet (I know—how does someone smell soft, but she really did) and who cries and grabs…
“I really need my own laptop for school.” I’m not going to name which child uttered these words, because they each feel the same way. They feel that they need…
Ending the day without anxiety. Receiving spiritual truth and practical wisdom from another mother of a child with a disability. And entering into a story about the extravagant tenderness of…
I remember this time, back when Penny was really little, when we were at a birthday party together and another mom was there with her child who also had a…
One of our children lied to me the other day. It wasn’t a big lie. It was the type of lie I’ve told before—where I was caught off guard by…
Much of the default parent life should be filed under the category “miscellaneous.” That’s what my friend Patricia says. Things like... Filling out the forms for soccer (I talked a…