Whew. Yesterday was Jerry’s birthday, the end of a long month of family birthdays. Out of 16 members of our immediate family (Jerry and I, our four daughters, three sons-in-law, six grandkids, and one grandson-in-law) nine of us are blessed with birthdays in the merry month of May. (Actually, I suspect the really merry month…
Going to Hell in a Wheelbarrow
“The world is going to hell in a wheelbarrow, and this is not going to do retarded people any good.” Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger, Mental Retardation, February 1994. I was skimming the current (April 2010) issue of Intellectual and Development al Disabilities: A Journal of Policy, Practices, and Perspectives, the official publication of the American Association on…
Clueless in Central Texas
Someday I will write a job description covering every single item Jerry and I have had to develop some level of competence in while building Down Home Ranch, starting with trenching a sewer line (thank you yet again, St. David’s!) right on up through achieving licensure as an ICF-MR facility. (All in all, just between…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Yesterday I took daughter Kelly to Wal-Mart to buy a new dvd player since hers had broken. (In case you weren’t aware, an emergency of the first order!) Half-way there Kelly asked me, “Why are we eating so healthy?” So we started talking about weight, and health, and exercise–not for the first time by any means. Most…