by Emily Pearl Kingsley I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this . . . When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make your wonderful plans. … [Read more...]

for my "regulars" that come here a lot, sorry for all the changes! I was in a cyber spring cleaning kind of mood recently and decided I wanted to change my background. Annoyingly, I'm not the super computer geek you may think me to be and I can't find a worthy background made by blogger.com, but if I change my background to a cool Pyzam! or somesuch one, I'll loose all my custom settings on my … [Read more...]

--"I can't get out,--I can't get out," said thestarling.I stood looking at the bird: and to every person who came throughthe passage it ran fluttering to the side towards which theyapproach'd it, with the same lamentation of its captivity. "Ican't get out," said the starling.--God help thee! said I, but I'lllet thee out, cost what it will; so I turned about the cage to getto the door: it was … [Read more...]

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