by Jolene | Sep 26, 2022 | Encouragement, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
The Beauty of Disability Our pastor was introducing a new sermon series about beauty when these four words, which I had never strung together before, which I did not want to string together, took up residence in my brain. My response was swift and prickly. The beauty...
by Lillian Flakes | Dec 26, 2019 | Holidays
Special Needs Gift Exchange: A Unique Perspective Special needs gift exchange has meant something unusual to Lillian Flake since her daughter Catherine was born. In her guest post, Lillian describes the beauty and joy Catherine brings to the season and to her family....
by Jolene | Nov 16, 2017 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
I Want to Come Home My longing to come home intensifies each time my body fails me, when loved ones die, and upon hearing of another child receiving a different special needs diagnosis. One day when the longing was especially strong, I tried to explain the source of...
by Jolene | Nov 18, 2015 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
6 Disability Lessons Learned from a Kitchen Knife About six weeks ago, the knife I was using to remove the label from a container slipped and severed the tendon in my left thumb. After waking up from repair surgery to a left hand swathed and immobile in a ginormous...
by Jolene | Mar 12, 2015 | Advocacy, Special Needs Parenting
Is Differently Normal the Best We Can Do? Terry Pratchett has a way with words. He’s written oodles of fantasy fiction, and his make-believe worlds are filled with golems, goblins, dwarves, and men. In Making Money some of his human characters discuss...
