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I’m the Vice President of our local Down Syndrome Association, and we have a picnic in the spring. This year, our typical venue was booked. I volunteered the park up the hill from my home. Called the number on the sign. Went into the Parks and Recreation Office to book the event. Filled out the…

I have a new post at Her.meneutics, the women’s blog of Christianity Today. It begins: We don’t watch much television in our household, but my husband and I both find ourselves wed to the computer. I was looking through a photo album with our daughter last week, and we came across one from her infancy.…

I’ve always loved language. I spoke early, and according to my mother, I wouldn’t speak as a child until I could say a word correctly (except for raisins, which I called “sha sha.” Go figure.). I stopped taking Science classes midway through high school so I could double up on English classes. I was an…

When I was pregnant with William, I thought a lot about what it would be like for him to have an older sister with Down syndrome. I thought about how “good it would have been” for me to have had a sibling with Downs. I assumed she would teach him things like patience, or to…
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