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March 2012

March 28, 2012

Faith, Grief, and Growing Up

Fellow Redbud writer Kelli Trujillo interviewed me for her blog this week, and in one...

March 27, 2012

Can’t Resist: Articles Worth Reading

Louise Kinross' take on "after-birth abortion: "I Say Gobbledygook!" The Brain on Love, a fascinating...

March 23, 2012

A Good and Perfect Gift Wins a Christopher Award!

We were in the San Juan airport on our way to four days of vacation...

March 22, 2012

Down Syndrome Goes Global

When our daughter Penny was a baby, I took her into Panera Bread at lunchtime....

March 21, 2012

World Down Syndrome Day and What I See in Penny

Two hours after our daughter was born, she was diagnosed with Down syndrome. The pronouncement...

March 19, 2012

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Responses to Readers about Down syndrome and wrongful birth

I'm sure some of you have skimmed the comments over on the Huffington Post from...

March 17, 2012

Life with Down Syndrome: Good or Wrongful?

Over the course of the past five years, I've read news reports of a series...

March 16, 2012

Perfectly Human: Learning from Corinne by David Di Sabatino

There were no trumpet fanfares to mark the occasion or festoon of flowers dropping from...

March 13, 2012

Beginning to Understand Her as a Gift

For those of you who have already read A Good and Perfect Gift, this post...

March 12, 2012

Learning to Read

When Penny was diagnosed with Down syndrome, the doctors told us that she would have...

March 09, 2012

What People are saying about A Good and Perfect Gift

A Good and Perfect Gift came out in September. It hasn't come close to best...

March 07, 2012

The R-Word and the Courage to Say I’m Sorry

Penny had surgery a few weeks back. It all went well. But in the recovery...

March 05, 2012

Maybe Parenting Really is all about Money

Lisa Belkin posted a really interesting piece about how having money relates to being a...

February 2012

February 28, 2012

My Life as a God Blogger

I think my interview last week with Drew Marshall as his weekly "God blogger" might...

February 27, 2012

What Jeremy Lin has to do with Down syndrome (and a few other things to think about)

Jeremy Lin has overturned assumptions about the ability of Asian Americans to play basketball. So...

February 24, 2012

What I’ve Learned Through Penny (in Six Minutes)

I had a lovely conversation with Susie Larson for Moody Radio last Friday. Somehow in...

February 23, 2012

Seeing Down Syndrome or Seeing Penny?

When Bonnie Rochman was writing her article for TIME, she asked me (per her editor's...

February 21, 2012

Talking to Time Magazine about Prenatal Testing and Down Syndrome

I read a lot about prenatal testing, especially now that a company called Sequenom has developed...

February 21, 2012

Photo Shoot with TIME, or What Does Down syndrome Look Like?

Reed and Aaron showed up at 11:00 last Sunday, just as we were getting home...

February 20, 2012

One Last Surgery Update

So the doctor told us to expect a 5-7 day recovery. But Penny woke up...

February 17, 2012

Penny at the Hospital, or What I Love About Our Daughter

I woke up this morning because Penny came barreling into our room. "I want to...

February 16, 2012

Upcoming Events… Speaking, Radio, Magazine, Conferences, and Penny’s Surgery

If you live in New York City, Princeton, Raleigh, Durham, or Basking Ridge, NJ, I'm...

February 14, 2012

People with Disabilities at the Center . . .

There are weeks when I can't help but write blogposts, and then there are weeks...

February 13, 2012

Down syndrome, dancing, and delight

Some of you remember that Penny took ballet when she was 4. You might have...

February 09, 2012

Penny’s Upcoming Surgery, or, Believe it or not, I’m Grateful

Penny will have surgery on her eyes and ears next week, on February 17th. She's...

February 07, 2012

Do You Want a Perfect Family?

As those of you who have read A Good and Perfect Gift know (and, I...

February 02, 2012

Why Did I Write A Good and Perfect Gift?

This interview appeared in a newsletter for Tiny Tots Therapy: As an author & mother, what...

January 2012

January 27, 2012

Thoughts and Questions from A Good and Perfect Gift

Cary Umhau, co-creator of a very cool website (and more) called Spacious, has written twice...

January 24, 2012

The Problems and Privileges of Being a Mom

I don't want to share the series of bad parenting moments I experienced this weekend....

January 19, 2012

How to Raise a Child with Down Syndrome: Advice and Resources

I have a new article on parents.com: How to Raise a Child with Down Syndrome:...

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