Archive for December 2012

The party was spilling out the front and back doors of our new  Harlem home.   The cold and the drizzle were a welcome relief to those who had built up a sweat dancing in the shoulder to shoulder crowded room that so many New York families touched by Down syndrome have come to think of…

“Can we talk about whether Havurah could be a viable option for this boy?” The email came last May, and I had no idea how the power of this one email would impact my life.  Melissa Lader, in the Center for Special Needs, was connecting me to Aedan, a 4 year old boy with Down…