One thought was dominating all others as I sat in my first support group for parents of children with disabilities: Maybe I should leave. The group's facilitators had just passed around an inspirational essay called "Welcome to Holland.'' It goes something like this: A family plans a...
At the duck fishing booth, no one thinks anything of Meredith tossing the fishing net aside and just sticking her chubby hand in the water to fetch a prize toy duck....
As a journalism major at the University of Texas, I spent hours in the Jesse H. Jones Communication Center laboring in the newspaper lab over every paragraph, every lead and every word of a story. Today in the same building, I spend two hours a week...
I had spent months agonizing over whether to get the placard for my 3-year-old daughter, Meredith, who is developmentally delayed and uses a walker....
I've always known the sea had a language of its own, one that has inspired writers and soothed souls. For a moment in time, it spoke to my little girl....