A few weeks ago Jerry and I, along with Kelly and Sterling, attended a FRED Conference in Los Angeles. We were all to serve as speakers or panelists. FRED arose out of a group of parents of children with autism. Knowing that many people with autism thrive in a rural environment, they seek to create…
Racing the Clock
Me visiting with a young attendee at the NDSC Jerry and I, three staff, and two Down Home Ranch Board members attended the National Down Syndrome Congress Conference (NDSC) in Denver in mid-June. Jerry and I went up early to attend the Global Down Syndrome Foundation Round Table on current advances in Down syndrome research…
Happy to be here
Volunteer Cacy Scott from Sunnybrook Christian Church of Stillwater, OK I often correct people when they say Jerry and I “built” Down Home Ranch. We’re the Founders, but other people built it. And I don’t mean just the homes, the ponds, the greenhouses, the barns, and other structures. I include the fences, the programs, and…
Every life has value
I woke up in a cold sweat yesterday morning from a nightmare. No monsters, just random things that I was somehow responsible for popping up, with no framework in which to approach them, no common cause with others to let me know what I was responsible for. And the triggers for my nightmare? One is the down-to-the-wire…