I saw a friend last night who’d been out of town for several weeks to be with her daughter for the birth of her first baby. Almost before I could ask her how things had gone, she said, “We have to talk.” In that instant I knew that the baby had been born with Down…
A Smile as Big as the Moon…and a few other things
Tonight ABC debuts its movie A Smile as Big as the Moon. At least one of the actors in it has Down syndrome, Peter ten Brink. Maybe some of the others portraying students in a special ed class do also, but I’m not sure. I haven’t seen it, but I’m hopeful, partly for part of…
Santa comes of age
Years ago, when we’d just moved to the Ranch and Kelly was nine or so, we became friends with a family with a son with Down syndrome in his last year of high school. The son, whom I’ll call Scott, was a charmer–handsome, polite, and funny. Scott loved the idea of living on a Ranch and…
Life..with Down syndrome
Somebody else wrote the blog for today. Go to http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/12/04/a-chosen-child.html for an exceptionally honest, insightful, and lovely article about the decision to have a baby you know will have Down syndrome.