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I have a new post at her.meneutics: “Actually, It Takes More Than a Village.” It begins: I picked up Time with trepidation. I’m nearly six months pregnant, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to know what Annie Murphy Paul had to tell me in her cover story, “How the first nine months shape the rest of your…

I’ve been sick for ten days now. It started with a cold, then laryngitis, then some nausea and general fatigue. As Penny keeps asking me, “Do you still feel yucky, Mom?” And the answer is, yes. Still yucky. William says, “I hope you feel better!” and he loves opening up the cough drops for me.…

As Down Syndrome Awareness Month comes to a close, I’d like to highlight the four “Perfectly Human” posts that have focused upon relationships with individuals with Down syndrome. There’s much work to be done on behalf of people with Down syndrome–advocacy, medical research, educational advances. And yet the work that seems most significant to me…

When I was a kid, I loved the movie Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels. I thought Steve Martin was hilarious. If you haven’t seen it, or to refresh your memory, as a part of a scam, Steve Martin pretended to be a man with mental disabilities. (Just to be clear–he wasn’t actually playing a character with disabilities.…
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