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June 2013

June 28, 2013

A Good and Perfect Gift on Audible (and Other Fun News)

For those of you who prefer listening to books to reading them (or for your...

November 2012

November 23, 2012

The Perfect Christmas Gift?

Looking for an inexpensive but meaningful holiday gift?

October 2012

October 08, 2012

A Good and Perfect Gift, One Year Later . . . and the Next Book

...the most rewarding part of writing a book is the emails and letters and one-on-one...

June 2012

June 28, 2012

On Love, Waiting for God, and What Makes Us Human

I hope that having Penny in my life has taught me first and foremost to...

June 07, 2012

A Good and Perfect Gift for $2.99, and other book news

A Good and Perfect Gift has been selected by Amazon as one of 100 books...

May 2012

May 28, 2012

Down syndrome and abortion, Bristol Palin, and me (plus a book giveaway)

Some of you may know that Bristol Palin has recently joined the roster of Patheos...

May 24, 2012

Upcoming Events: Germantown, MD, New York City, and Chicago

For any of you who have checked my website lately, you might have noticed it's...

May 14, 2012

Talking with 100 Huntley Street about parenting, Down syndrome, and transformation

I'm still working to get the eye makeup off after a really nice morning on...

May 10, 2012

Dreaming about Fashion Faux Pas and Going to Canada

I'm heading to Toronto today for a quick trip--first, tonight, to meet in person my...

May 09, 2012

A Good and Perfect Gift revisited

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to talk with Tony Rossi about A...

May 09, 2012

George Will’s Son, Rick Santorum’s Daughter, and Penny

I just realized that I forgot to tell you all that Quin Hillyer reviewed A...

May 01, 2012

On Limitations, Grief that Turns to Joy, and the Blessings and Difficulties of Down syndrome

I had the pleasure of speaking with Lynne Ford of Mid-morning, a radio show in...

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 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...

February 2012

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 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...

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 20, 2011

Designer Babies, Christmas, and A Good and Perfect Gift

Philip Ney has an essay discussing A Good and Perfect Gift in the current issue of...

November 2011

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 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...

October 2011

October 21, 2011

Disability Matters to All of Us . . .

I can understand why lots of people assume that I wrote A Good and Perfect...

September 2011

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 12, 2011

Questions for your Book Club

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

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 02, 2011

Some Thoughts on Amazon and A Good and Perfect Gift

A number of you have written me to ask, "Will A Good and Perfect Gift...

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