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Butterflies.

posted Monday November 2nd, 2009

You know that Bare Naked Ladies song “If I Had a Million Dollars?” Well, if I had a million dollars, I’d spend it the way Maxine and Jonathan Marshall did. Their Marshall Fund brings smart book authors and well-versed poets to town on a regular basis. And twice a year, the butterflies come, too. The […]


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Sugar Skulls

posted Friday October 30th, 2009

Finally, success with a classroom craft. There isn’t time to go down the list of turds I’ve dropped in the artistic punchbowl over the years (the time my mom and I tried to get first graders to emulate Picasso and Matisse comes to mind) but I must say that I’m feeling quite proud of the […]


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Sugar Skulls: A Smashing Success

posted Friday October 24th, 2008

OK, so I don’t want to go all Martha on your ass or anything, but if you’re looking for a fun and easy craft to celebrate the Halloween season and Day of the Dead — one that even a kindergartener with Down syndrome can do! — go to www.mexicansugarskull.com and buy a mold. Here are […]


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Crackin’ (Mexican Sugar) Skulls

posted Thursday October 23rd, 2008

When it looked like the creation of sugar skulls (a tradition honoring Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead — celebrated November 1, All Saints Day, in Mexico among other places) was iminent, I called Kathleen. I have two gringa friends — tall blonde women who have long been inexplicably obsessed with all […]


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My Heart Can't Even Believe It: A Story of Science, Love, and Down Syndrome is available from Amazon and 
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