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  A friend gave me a subscription to Parents Magazine before our daughter Penny was born. I remember the headline of an article that arrived when she was six weeks old: “Will Your Child Be Tall? Athletic? Intelligent?” I answered, “No. No. And no.” I threw the magazine away. Some good came of my mistaken…

There were three pediatricians in our wedding party. One bridesmaid. Two groomsmen. So we have a nice list of friends to call whenever we have a question. I’ve asked them to talk me through the signs of dehydration, the best way to treat wheezing, the various questions to ask back when one doctor suspected Penny…

The other night, Peter heard William rustling around in his crib. The rustling turned to cries, and the cries didn’t cease. He finally went upstairs to discover William naked. “I tinkled on my pillow.”  It’s happened twice since then. So we’re starting the potty-training journey for the second time, just weeks after we considered Penny’s…

Penny was six months old. I was reading Time Magazine, and there was an article about Carolyn Bergeron and Sujeet Desai, two adults with Down syndrome getting married. I frowned. For one thing, I didn’t like the idea of Penny, and people like Penny, being so different that their marriages would make the national news. But…
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