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I am a believer, a dreamer, a traveler. I love learning, experiencing new places and cultures, and climbing to the highest point simply to check out the view. Music and singing can occupy me for hours. Reading, not so much. My faith, family and friends are the most important things in my life. I find…

We are members of Westerly Road Church, a non-denominational church in Princeton, New Jersey. The church is trying to construct a new building a few miles away from our current location because zoning laws prohibit us from expanding our facility to accommodate the hundreds of members of our community who gather daily and weekly on…

The other day, I overheard Penny say to a friend, “Let’s play categories.” The friend said, “What?” “Categories.” Penny looked to me for help. I explained, “In our family we play a game called categories, where we pick something–like colors or books or things that go–and then list as many of those things as we…

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…

My “summer reading list” is posted at her.meneutics, along with the other contributers to that blog. You can check it out here. In light of the brevity of this post, a quotation to consider: “Among the many desecrations visited upon the creation, the profanation of time ranks near the top, at least among North Americans.…

Ross Douthat of the New York Times comments on the impact sperm and egg donation has on the children conceived by such donations: The Birds and the Bees (via the Fertility Clinic).  I’m going to quote Ellen Painter Dollar’s summary of his article, and I also recommend her comments:  “New York Times columnist Ross Douthat wrote…

Our son William is a sensitive child. Lights, noises, textures. He responds immediately and intensely. So on Saturday morning, when my mother inadvertently opened a picture book that included a light and a buzzing sound, William wailed. And wailed. And wailed. He was still wailing, in my arms, when Penny came into the room. She…

With the move to beliefnet, I decided to start a weekly guest blog post called “Perfectly Human.” This weekly feature is intended to provide a picture of life with a disability in all its possibilities and limitations, gifts and struggles. The title of this feature comes from the Greek word telos, which can be translated as…

I should start by explaining that our family lives in a dorm with thirty high school boys. On Friday night, I came home to find my husband in the playroom on the couch talking to two of those boys sitting on the floor. They were asking questions about God–everything from “How do you explain suffering?”…

Before our daughter Penny was born, and before she was diagnosed with Down syndrome, I had a picture in my head of who she would be. The picture was essentially a small version of myself–a verbally precocious child who talked early and taught herself to read and skipped kindergarten. After I heard the doctor’s words,…
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