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October 2011

October 12, 2011

Telling the Story: George Estreich’s The Shape of the Eye

I don't have the words to convey how much I liked Geore Estreich's book, The...

October 10, 2011

Why School Is Scary, and Great

I'm years away from being an "empty nester," and although I suspect that Penny will...

October 07, 2011

A Smattering of Posts Worth Reading: Infertility, Weddings, and a Little Boy with Down Syndrome Who Died Last Week

A post by Joanna Goddard that describes the struggle of infertility: What if You Can't...

October 07, 2011

A Good and Perfect Gift Update plus Giveaway

Over the course of the past few weeks, Patheos has featured A Good and Perfect...

October 05, 2011

What I Learned From Raising A Child With Down Syndrome (So Far) on Parents.com

I have a new post on The Goody Blog for Parents Magazine called "What I...

October 04, 2011

New Post at NYTimes.com/Motherlode: Has Down Syndrome Hurt Us?

I have a new post on Motherlode, the parenting blog of the New York Times:...

September 2011

September 30, 2011

Two Stories of Down Syndrome

I've written before about the two stories circulating in our culture about Down syndrome. There's...

September 29, 2011

Advice for Raising a Child with Down Syndrome

I'm working on an article for Parents.com which will offering advice about raising a child...

September 28, 2011

Penny Goes to Kindergarten, Three Weeks In . . .

Penny woke up every morning the first week of kindergarten and looked at me eagerly,...

September 26, 2011

What People Are Saying About A Good and Perfect Gift

I thought you might be interested in a few reviews of A Good and Perfect...

September 26, 2011

Grieving the Loss of a Hypothetical Child

I grieved after Penny was born. I wish it weren't true, but I can't deny...

September 20, 2011

Wrongful Birth and Wrongful Death

I have written before about the concept of a "wrongful" birth--the legal term used when...

September 19, 2011

The Language of Inclusion, or Why I Love Our Children’s Preschool

As a writer and former English major, I know that language matters. The way we...

September 15, 2011

Down syndrome and Community

I have a new post on Bloom--Parenting Kids with Disabilities, "Friends in Need, Friends Indeed."...

September 14, 2011

Writing About our Not-so-Perfect Family

I received a very kind comment over the weekend. In response to my recent post,...

September 12, 2011

Questions for your Book Club

Are you in a Book Club? (This is besides the point of this blogpost, but...

September 09, 2011

What I’m Reading: Sperm Donors, Religion and 9/11, and the Images of Down Syndrome

Three articles I recommend for your reading this weekend: First, a New York Times piece...

September 06, 2011

Two Minutes with Rachel Simon

I have a brief interview with author Rachel Simon in this month's Books and Culture...

September 05, 2011

Why Is it that People with Disabilities Have so much to Tell us About Being Human?

I just read a post by the author Ian Brown, "The Absence of Normal Frees...

August 2011

August 30, 2011

A Good and Perfect Gift is In Stock! (And a Free Excerpt)

Lots more information to come as the week progresses, including an excerpt and a video...

August 29, 2011

What I’m Reading: Dealing with Death, Catholic Hospitals, and Autism

Siddharta Mukherjee wrote a column for the New York Times Magazine about his experience watching...

August 23, 2011

A Letter to a New Parent of a Baby with Down syndrome

Our daughter Penny was born five and a half years ago. She was our first...

August 16, 2011

Growing Up in Holland: A Sibling Reports on Trust, Love, and Courage

Jenni Newbury is a new friend of mine. She wrote a guest post a while...

August 15, 2011

Sneak Preview of A Good and Perfect Gift

It's been in the works for oh, five and a half years now, if you...

August 10, 2011

Disabled or Uber-Able?

So here's the question: should a man who was born without the lower half of...

August 03, 2011

Why Don’t You Just Adopt?

In the early stages of this blog, I wrote a post about in vitro fertilization....

August 01, 2011

Is Down syndrome a Problem to be Solved? My response to the New York Times…

Dan Hurley's article, "A Drug for Down Syndrome," appeared in The New York Times' Sunday...

July 2011

July 29, 2011

Down Syndrome: What Story Will you Tell?

I had this moment when we were on vacation in Virginia Beach. I was looking...

July 26, 2011

Rachel Simon Talks about Siblings with Disabilities

When I interviewed Rachel Simon, author of The Story of Beautiful Girl a few weeks...

July 20, 2011

I’m Tired of Pop Culture Mocking Down Syndrome…

Sometimes I forget that most of the world isn't attuned to issues related to Down...

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