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January 2012

January 16, 2012

What Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream Has to Do with Down Syndrome

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream. He expressed that dream in...

January 11, 2012

You’re Pregnant. Should You Screen for Down Syndrome?

Two friends recently asked me for advice. Both are in their first trimester of pregnancy....

January 09, 2012

Blessings Upon Blessings: Exceptional Worship and Friendship House

Some people still think that it is sad that Penny has Down syndrome, and that...

December 2011

December 29, 2011

How to Make Your Book a Best Seller…

Okay, it's a deceptive blog title. I have no idea how to make my book...

December 13, 2011

Remembering St. Nick

Penny has had an aversion to, and fascination with, Santa Claus for years now. Four...

December 12, 2011

A Good (if not exactly perfect?) Christmas Gift

My sister-in-law and I tried to make Christmas a little simpler this year. At first,...

December 02, 2011

A Good and Perfect Gift, Revisited

I have a new essay in the December issue of Christianity Today (and if you're...

November 2011

November 30, 2011

Penny and me on Time.com

Bonnie Rochman has a new article at Time.com called "Are Kids With Down Syndrome on...

November 16, 2011

A Good and Perfect Gift Recent Reviews

Marilee and I head up to Boston today, and I'm looking forward to visiting...

November 16, 2011

Faith, Down syndrome, and Becoming Human

I read Kathryn Soper's The Year My Son and I Were Born when it was...

November 15, 2011

Making Friends, or Inclusion in School

Penny had a playdate yesterday. Her second of the year, actually. Long term readers of...

November 14, 2011

Denver, Boston, Princeton–Hope You’ll Be There!

I have three upcoming events this week that might be of interest to some of...

November 09, 2011

Measuring a Life, or Kindergarten Update

I was having dinner with friends a few weeks back. They have an adult daughter...

November 08, 2011

What I’ve Learned from Penny: An Interview on Her.meneutics

My friend and colleague Karen Swallow Prior interviewed me about A Good and Perfect Gift...

November 07, 2011

A Good and Perfect Gift in Publisher’s Weekly Top Ten . . .

I can't really believe that I'm about to write this, but I just found out...

November 04, 2011

A Good and Perfect Gift Reviews: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

A Good and Perfect Gift has been "out there" for about two months now, and...

November 02, 2011

Rethinking Perfection

Last Thursday night, I was invited to share my thoughts on the meaning of perfection...

October 2011

October 28, 2011

Everything I Ever Needed to Learn . . .

For those of you who read this blog regularly, you know that Penny started kindergarten...

October 26, 2011

What Down Syn Mean?

It's a question William asked me a long time ago, and I've been thinking about...

October 25, 2011

Hat Trick, and October is National Down Syndrome Awareness Month

This post is an excuse to a) show you what Penny did at her babysitter's...

October 21, 2011

A Smattering: Dragon Mother, Reading the Bible Makes You Liberal, and Sequenom Releases New Prenatal Test for Down Syndrome

By now, many of you have already read Notes From a Dragon Mom, Emily Rapp's beautiful...

October 14, 2011

More Reviews of A Good and Perfect Gift

A friend remarked a number of years ago that writing a memoir has three stages--living...

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 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:...

October 03, 2011

Asking the Wrong Questions about Down syndrome

A few weeks back someone asked me, "When did you know there was something wrong...

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...

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