“I don’t want to see that woman,” Sophie said sharply as we navigated rain puddles on the concrete path to the little park and rec classroom where they hold practice for Special Olympics cheerleading Saturday mornings. It had been a whole week, but I knew exactly who she meant. I’d been thinking about that woman, […]

Lately, I’ve noticed that I haven’t been writing so much about Sophie and Down syndrome, per se. Maybe it was the distractions of the holiday season, but I think it’s more than that. Funny, when she was born, the doctors and other experts warned us that as she grew, we’d see her differences more. Instead, more and […]