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October 2011

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 19, 2011

Some Days are Filled with Unexpected Joy

Yesterday should have been rough. Peter was away, and I had gotten about five hours...

October 17, 2011

Where Should Christians Send Their Kids to School?

I have a post on Scot McKnight's Jesus Creed blog today that discusses a recent...

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 13, 2011

Making Mistakes

When we sit down to dinner as a family, we often go around the table...

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 11, 2011

The Comparison Trap

I've been thinking about comparisons. We do it without thinking--compare our waistline to the person...

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 06, 2011

One of Those Days . . .

Tuesday morning started at 5:30, with a text from our babysitter explaining that she couldn't...

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...

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 23, 2011

All the Things I Meant to Write, and a Nice Mini-Review of A Good and Perfect Gift

Here's a list of the blog posts I meant to write this week (the picture,...

September 22, 2011

Hurricane Irene, 9/11, and the Meaning of a House

I have a new post on her.meneutics about the near-destruction of our family's summer...

September 21, 2011

Why I Needed to Have Children . . .

I didn't really want kids for a long time. That's a story for another day,...

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 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

Another Excerpt and A Good and Perfect Gift Now Available on Kindle

Sharon Hodde Miller was kind enough to promote my book on her blog, sheworships.com. For...

September 08, 2011

When Your Friend Finds Out She’s Having a Child with Down Syndrome . . .

A few weeks ago, I had the chance to talk with Diane Markins...

September 08, 2011

On Bambi, Disabilities, and Becoming Super-Great Friends

William and I were watching Bambi together last week. Penny was already asleep. Near the...

September 06, 2011

Hopes and Fears for Our Children (and another chance to win a copy of A Good and Perfect Gift)

My new memoir, A Good and Perfect Gift: Faith, Expectations, and a Little Girl Named...

September 05, 2011

What Public Schools Have to Do with a Full Life

Last Friday, Family Life broadcast a conversation between Martha Manikas Foster and me about why...

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