Saturday was the state Special Olympics cheerleading competition. Sophie’s team bombed. They finished third out of three, winning bronze medals. I found Sophie’s crumbled on the not very clean porch windowsill the next day. No one had even bothered to bring it into the house. A rather sad end to the season, in contrast with last […]
This past weekend, Sophie performed onstage at the Herberger Theater in downtown Phoenix for the third year in a row. The production is Snow Queen and as far as I know, Sophie’s the only kid with special needs (definitely the only one with Down syndrome) who’s ever been in this show, sort of a Nutcracker […]
The statewide Special Olympics cheerleading competition is coming up later this week, and the members of Team Tempe are as ready as they’ll ever be. They’ve cheered at basketball games, competed in the regional competition and practiced just about every Saturday since December. A funny thing occurred to me at practice this morning: I’m going […]
I did it. I’ve been talking it about (a lot — apologies to those who have listened to me go on) and today I finally did it. I sent in Sophie’s Special Olympics registration. For cheerleading. What follows is a piece I read last month at an event sponsored by a group called the Lit […]
