Pipecleaner Dreams

An incredible Dad that I know through Facebook published a picture yesterday of a business card he ordered for his severely disabled daughte...

I may be way out in left field with this post, but it sometimes seems to me that some parents of children with disabilities seem jealous tha...

The belief in the inner beauty of each and every human being is at the heart of L’Arche…and at the heart of being human… We do not discover ...

Arkansas has three times as many children needing foster care and adoption than it has available families to take them in. But, on Tuesday,...

My local news station ran a great story this morning about a group of New York school children learning sign language after school. I tried...

One of the blogs I visit on a fairly regular basis is Ka’lalau’s Korner , written by Carl Schroeder. The tag line on the blog says “Ka’lala...

By now I should be immune to the stares when Ashley and I are out in public. Ashley's left eye is very, very small and is a strange, cl...

I am finally starting to catch up on my blog reading and really liked this entry from Mommy~Dearest over at The Quirk Factor : Why I Use a C...

I wanted to share some photos from the Dreamcatchers Family Retreat held last week. Just a reminder, this is an annual retreat held for fam...

A story on the NBC Nightly News last night showed that full inclusion can work. Walgreens has planned to hire an 800 person workforce where...

Once upon a time, a man named Dan Wilkins started designing t-shirts, bumper stickers, and such. He also started writing and sharing his ve...

As I was walking through my neighborhood last night, I wondered if I could divine anything about the people who lived in the houses by study...

Comedian George Carlin said, “You know what we need – black Jello.” Think of the fun you could have if you served black Jello for dessert o...

How do offensive words become part of our general conversations? What is the process for a word like bitch or whore to move from something ...

Miles and Allyson made me so happy today. They came to Ashley’s birthday party – and they really wanted to come to her party. Miles is in ...