I love this story. Monday night, I made a bracelet for Sarah’s mom, Rachel. Sarah, if you have forgotten — and how could you, I talk about her all the time — is Sophie’s BFF. I love Rachel, too, and was happy to learn from Facebook that her birthday was Tuesday (happy I saw it […]

Depsite my best (well, ok, half-hearted) attempts to love Phoenix, sometimes it doesn’t happen. But one thing I do adore about this town is how damn small it is — and when you have kids, you discover that over and over, in unexpected ways. Turns out, Sophie’s teacher’s brother-in-law runs the coolest record store in town.  […]

Stop the presses. It’s raining. Actually, at the moment sun is pouring in through the blinds in my office, but I can see some dark clouds. We’ve had inches and inches of rain in Phoenix this week, something our streets — and our psyches — just aren’t prepared to deal with. Last night Ray and I […]

Last week, New York Times blogger Lisa Belkin posed the question, “Should Down syndrome be cured?” I posted a link to her piece, but I didn’t fire off a response. I needed to give the whole thing some thought, I figured. This is fundamental.  The truth is that I will think about this for my […]

Do you ever notice that a comment can be far wiser than the blog post that prompted it? I have, and more often than not, that comment has come from Elaine. We have nothing in common, really, other than daughters named Sophie (that’s how she found GIAPH a while back) but in getting to know her […]

Really, I’ve never been one to pick up a needle — even to sew on a button. I have a dim (in more ways than one) memory of Home Ec in 8th grade. But I’m really digging this embroidery thing. There is something primal about tucking a stitch onto a line — particularly when that […]

I slid in just before bedtime last night, and Sophie greeted me with her usual exuberence (I wish you could all be greeted by Sophie after a long, hard day) and as usual, I asked how her day was. The response: “FANTASTIC!” Nice vocabulary word, and appropriately used, to boot.

Earlier today, Cheri — a wise mom and beautiful blogger — forwarded the link to Lisa Belkin’s post on the New York Times Web site, about the possibility of a cure for Down syndrome. Whoa. On a day I ate popcorn at my desk for lunch, I’m way too busy to thoroughly digest that kind of […]

Ray made me promise I wouldn’t blog about it — and I held out for a while — but I love my homemade Christmas gift from him so much, I can’t resist. In case you can’t tell, the photos are of the girls on Christmases past, and the whole thing is covered in fake snow. There’s […]

I can’t shake the bit of melancholy that’s been hanging around the edges of my world, this whole holiday season. Usually it doesn’t come til it’s time to take down the decorations and get ready to go back to school, but this year I have to admit that it’s been with me all along. Maybe, […]