Posted in Family, Thoughts on Oct 7th, 2007 5 Comments »
Tonight I was sorting some things while Amy was helping Reid get ready for bed. Reid came into the room to wish me a good night. He walked up, kissed me, and said, “That kiss is going to say something inside your heart. Make sure you hear it.” I don’t think I could have heard [...]
Posted in Family on Jun 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
Posted in Family on May 17th, 2007 3 Comments »
We love it. We move in July 7th, and hope you’ll come visit us soon.
Posted in Family, Misc on Apr 29th, 2007 2 Comments »
We’ve been in California for 6 weeks already now. Not a post in sight all that time, so here I go: It’s really pretty here. Whenever we walk to the park, down the block, to the store or library, we get to enjoy enormous trees, lush plants, oodles of flowers (the roses are enormous here!), [...]
Posted in Down syndrome, Family on Mar 2nd, 2007 2 Comments »
One of the hardest things about leaving Austin is leaving the kids’ preschool. The Rise School of Austin and all of the people working there that have touched our lives has been nothing less than transformative. In the few short months that Reid and Ava have attended Rise, they have grown in ways that I [...]
Posted in Family, Thoughts on Feb 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
Today is ending up being rather emotional for me. The fact that we are leaving Austin is becoming very real now. In all of this chaos and doing and planning, I have also done a lot of reflection. One thing I’ve thought about quite extensively is that even though we’ve lived in Tejas for 10 [...]
Posted in Down syndrome, Family, Thoughts on Nov 24th, 2006 No Comments »
One of the very first things that Amy and I recognized following Ava’s birth was that we were now members of a new club. I don’t mean that in a trite kind of way. I mean that we realized that we would be forever and profoundly connected to a new group of people. Just after [...]
Posted in Family, Misc on Sep 2nd, 2006 1 Comment »
The bloom is off the Star Wars rose, at least for now. Reid’s new favorite movie is Yellow Submarine. And I think that’s pretty cool.
Posted in Down syndrome, Family, Thoughts on Sep 1st, 2006 3 Comments »
I was sitting at work writing promotional materials for the new MOWAM newsletter. In my job, I am advocating for the rights of the elderly, the homebound and the disabled—citizens who are often forgotten in our competitive, fast-paced, technologically driven society. While writing what I hope to be a compelling piece, I couldn’t help but [...]
Posted in Down syndrome, Family, Thoughts on Aug 29th, 2006 No Comments »
This was written by Esti Levitansky Rokowsky at age 17 in honor of her special sibling. It resonates with me tremendously. – A feeble cry shatters the still air another child born Joy, happiness, ecstasy, laughter – crash! Suddenly our world comes tumbling down! Hushed whispers there, tears falling here What is wrong with our [...]