A Few Things I Learned From Writing About Prenatal Testing
24 hours after my essay for the New York Times came out online, I learned it was also in the print edition! So that was exciting. But I also learned…
24 hours after my essay for the New York Times came out online, I learned it was also in the print edition! So that was exciting. But I also learned…
I asked Penny if she would be willing to answer a few questions about her experience with the PATH process. These are her unedited responses: How would you explain what…
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…
What does it mean to be healthy? Can people with disabilities be healthier than typical people? What does it mean to be healed by God? Dr. Brian Brock, author of…
My friend’s son was whistling in class. The other kids were annoyed. Another friend’s daughter drools a lot and other kids think it’s “gross.” Some kids smell bad. Others make…
Meritocracy is the antithesis to love. I first wrote those words almost two years ago, when we were traveling cross-country and we were taking regular hikes as a family. On…
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…
"Why would it be a bad thing for five times more people with Down syndrome to be in the world?" asked my 13-year-old son William, whose older sister Penny has…
I look back on these words I wrote about Penny so many years ago in A Good and Perfect Gift, and I think, Yes. That’s it. I was no longer…