Wheeeeee. Here we go. What the hell was I thinking letting Meredith go to the playground at Amy's Ice Creams? Oh, right. Her 10-year-old sister was already on the spinner, so I had to let Meredith go too. My daughter is 14 and has a brain anomaly...

Fewer words have started revolutions and this was going to be mine. Meredith’s question gave me shivers up my spine and it wasn’t because it was cold and rainy. Why was I being so compliant with a rule that hindered access for Meredith?...

As the giraffe placed her mouth firmly around the tree’s top branches and pulled off some more leaves, the children all clinging to the fence watched in excitement. I could only imagine how mundane this all must have seemed to the giraffe at Waco’s Cameron Park...