July 7, 2011 On June 22, 1999 the Supreme Court upheld the Olmstead Decision. Advocates for individuals with disabilities compare this to the historic Brown vs. Board of Education ruling that declared separate public schools for black and white students […]
July 6, 2011 Truly this title should be “Why I Love the Rural South”. We spent most of the Independence Day holiday weekend in rural Arkansas. Part of it was spent at Greers Ferry Lake that is just down […]
June 30, 2011 Trash Dip I am trying to grow a small garden this year. There is nothing I like more than cucumbers. I can just wash them and eat them – especially those little pickling cucumbers. One of the […]
June 29, 2011 Under federal law, Extended School Year (ESY), better known as summer school, is offered to children with special learning needs. The primary purpose is to help students retain the knowledge they have. There is some research that […]
June 28, 2011 The artistic director of the TRDance Center in Hampton Roads, Virginia says, “How could I say no?” If you have never met Melissa Zaletski (alias Mrs. Z), you really can’t imagine what this means! Mrs. Z came […]
June 25, 2011 Yesterday my dear friend and director of the Down Syndrome Guild of Greater Kansas City, Amy Allison, sent me an email that simply said in the subject line “Your next blog post topic!” The text read, “Love […]
June 23, 2011 Last summer my dear husband suggested I submit my writing samples about my faith journey to our newspaper the Kansas City Star. They would be choosing 13 individuals from the community to write articles about their faith […]
June 20, 2011 Saturday I had the great privilege and honor of spending the morning with parents of babies and toddlers with Down syndrome. It was the Down Syndrome Guild of Greater Kansas City’s quarterly new parent breakfast and we […]
June 19, 2011 Just a brief Happy Father’s Day to my two favorite daddies: My daddy Hershel Barnett and Rachel’s Daddy, my husband Jonathan Mast. Both are great dads in very different ways. My dad always believed in me. I […]
June 17, 2011 Just when I was unsure what I would write about, British Airways comes to my rescue! If reports are correct, a British Airways employee told the mother of a 12-year-old girl with Down syndrome she could not […]