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Last week, Peter asked Penny if she’d like to take tennis lessons. “Yes!” she said, without a moment’s hesitation. So he took her over to our local tennis club and they watched the other kids play. Penny is 4 ½. She wears 3T clothing. And although her physical therapist has been singing her praises of…

Penny’s last day of school was last Thursday. In typical over-the-top fashion, her teachers put together a family picnic complete with food and drink in a shady spot and a variety of games. Penny’s favorite event was the sack race (especially, per the photo, the part where her dad picked her up and took her over…

I have a new post at BLOOM (a blog for parents of children with disabilities) called “Care Notebooks Keep you Organized.” It begins:  I call it Penny’s “Helen Keller moment.” Remember the scene from The Miracle Worker where Helen Keller understands for the first time that every word has a sign? That language is available to her,…

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…
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