I have an essay in the current issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly. It is called “A Good and Perfect Gift: How a Daughter with ‘Limitations’ Helped Her Mother Break Through Boundaries.” It begins:
We found out that our baby was a girl at my 20-week ultrasound. It was probably then that I started to envision her future. I slipped into assumptions that she, as our first child, would be verbally precocious, walk early, and impress other people with her abilities. Maybe someday she’d go to Princeton and be an English major; maybe someday, we’d discuss books together. Maybe someday, she would be just like me.
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