The travellers have returned. Kelly and Sterling headed off with Casey to fly to Kansas last Thursday, a trip they’ve made many times before but always on a direct flight. Now there are no direct flights between KC and Austin, and even though the plane change was just at Love Field, we were nervous about their negotiating…
Life Its Own Self
Once many years ago, when Kelly was a toddler, I was in conversation with a man from San Antonio, which has nothing to do with anything except that’s the only thing I remember about him, aside from what I here relate. When he learned my daughter had Down syndrome, he spoke of a family friend…
Some Are Born Great…
Picnicking before the play begins “What do you supposed UT thought when someone proposed starting a Shakespeare summer program way out here?” I asked Jerry as we wound our way around obscure country roads south of Hwy 290 and midway between Brenham and Giddings. “About what people thought when we proposed starting Down Home Ranch…
F Words
I was introduced recently to a concept I’d, strangely, never heard of before–a derogatory reference to the work most often available to people with intellectual disabilities. Kyle cleans up after horses The phrase is: “food, filth, and flowers,” and refers to the fact that if a person with IDs is going to find work, it’s…