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July 2011

July 13, 2011

When Do you Know that Your Book is Finished? Questions about A Good and Perfect Gift Part Three

I know the book is finished when the final deadline rolls around. Which, in this...

July 08, 2011

What Rachel Simon Told Me About Being a Sibling of Someone with a Disability

A few weeks ago, I reviewed Rachel Simon's new novel, The Story of Beautiful Girl....

July 06, 2011

What I’m Reading: Recent Articles about Disability

A moving story from the LA Times of a South Korean pastor who cares for...

July 05, 2011

Publisher’s Weekly Reviewed A Good and Perfect Gift and…

...they liked it! I've been grateful already for the responses from various people who have...

June 2011

June 27, 2011

Talking with Rachel Simon

A few weeks ago, I reviewed Rachel Simon's new novel, The Story of Beautiful Girl....

June 22, 2011

Perfectly Human: I Am Only Human by Mey Lau

When I was younger and I heard the word disabled, I never really felt that...

June 17, 2011

90% of Babies With Down Syndrome Aborted? Really?

Penny will "graduate" from pre-school today. She'll sing songs and receive a diploma and give...

June 13, 2011

What I’m Reading: Articles about Sarah Palin and Down syndrome, Disability Worldwide, and Prenatal Screening

As reporters and others cull through Sarah Palin's emails of the past few years, one...

June 10, 2011

The Story of Beautiful Girl: Humanity Laid Bare

I stayed up late every night this week reading The Story of Beautiful Girl by...

June 08, 2011

Perfectly Human: All for the Good… by Kelly Wendel

I was only five years old when my cousin Ben was born. I do not...

June 01, 2011

Perfectly Human: What Really Matters by Sarah Messner

When I was little, my big sister Katey carried, snuggled, cooed at, tickled, and pushed...

May 2011

May 30, 2011

What I’m Reading: Sex Trafficking in Connecticut, A Child with Down Syndrome, and Running

"Sex Trafficking of Americans: The Girls Next Door" is a disturbing article in Vanity Fair...

May 25, 2011

Perfectly Human: We Are All Glorious Ruins by Mary Frances Giles

“Mary Frances, what is wrong with your hair today? It looks so weird, you really...

May 25, 2011

Overcoming Disability or Can She Do It?

My husband Peter is a runner. Five miles is a short run. He runs half...

May 23, 2011

Ballet Recitals, Carelessness, and Grace Part One

Penny started taking ballet lessons in the fall. She learned the moves and the terms...

May 23, 2011

Disability Roundup

A series of articles that might be of interest to readers who are interested in...

May 20, 2011

Down Syndrome Decades Ago: Nothing But Absence

(An abridged version of this review appeared in the May/June issue of Books and Culture.)...

May 18, 2011

Perfectly Human: Trusting God in Times of Grief by Taylor Martin Wise

When the doctor delivered the news that my ten-month old daughter Bette was hearing impaired,...

May 18, 2011

Is There Such a Thing as Wrongful Birth?

A few years back, I read an article in the New York Times Magazine about...

May 16, 2011

Growing Up with Down Syndrome

I don't think about it much any more, but when Penny was born, some of...

May 13, 2011

“Curing” Down Syndrome?

I found out last week that my friend Ellen Painter Dollar and I won an...

May 11, 2011

Perfectly Human by Margot Starbuck: Movie Night, The “R” Word and True Confessions

“What? Since when did tard become politically incorrect?” I felt confused when I heard these...

May 09, 2011

What I’m Reading: Articles on Atheist Chaplains, War, and the Autism Epidemic

Should atheists in the military have chaplains to serve their needs? That's the question asked...

May 09, 2011

Sometimes It’s Good Not to Have a Choice (Or What I Didn’t Know Didn’t Hurt Me)

It sounds like good news. Researchers have developed a non-invasive test to detect Down syndrome...

May 04, 2011

Perfectly Human: An Impossible Goal by Jessica Bigby

My friend Jessica Bigby has offered a Perfectly Human post before: "Walking Toward Freedom." In...

May 04, 2011

Want Some Help Praying? Free Copies of A Praying Life on Kindle

Recently Peter and I took a walk together. We were talking about some trouble Penny's...

April 2011

April 29, 2011

Seeing Each Other

A long time ago I realized that when people first look at Penny, they don't...

April 28, 2011

Between Cross and Resurrection: Life and Death and Hope

I wrote a few weeks back about a little boy from Zambia who died wearing...

April 27, 2011

Perfectly Human: Harm and Healing by Jill Miller

Last month my husband Paul and I went to Israel to celebrate our 40th anniversary....

April 20, 2011

Perfectly Human: This Is Community by Karen Jackson

As the parent of a child with special needs, I write of faith communities from...

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