Writing
My first book-length work, The Year My Son and I Were Born, is a memoir about my first year with my son Thomas, who was diagnosed with Down syndrome at birth. It will be released by the Globe Pequot Press in March, 2009.
Published essays
Lighting the Way On Rudolph, Down syndrome, and gift-giving.
Giving Back From daughter to mother.
A Living Sacrifice The unseen fruits of pregnancy.
Bitter, Sweet Complex emotions about a child’s disability.
Shaulee’s Door The suffering of children breaks a heart open.
Burning the Beast Don’t clean up–just torch it all.
Greater Good Freedom yields pain; pain yields love.
Rings and Repentance A merciful woman forgives a thief.