Once in a while, it’s nice to go somewhere without internet access for a few days, even though it feels disorienting to be offline. But it’s not a state of being I’d want to spend too much time in. We spent the long weekend in Southern Illinois. Two weeks ago, a storm came barreling through…
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Cultivating an Attitude of Gratitude
Crises tend to bring out the best in us. We rise to the occasion; we set our teeth, hunker down and lean into the wind, knowing that complaining won’t help—we just have to get through it. It’s not the big stuff that brings out the pessimist in us. It’s the everyday Murphy. And so it…
Read MoreReflections following a life-threatening illness
I’ve said before that one of the goals of my writing is to offer encouragement to families receiving a diagnosis of Down syndrome. When you’re new to the world of Trisomy 21, there’s so much to absorb, and unfortunately it’s virtually all negative. It’s not a conspiracy—it’s just the nature of medicine. They study the…
Read MoreTurning over a new leaf
Here on the cusp of spring…or really, deep in the glorious wonder of it…life is beginning to settle. For the past three nights, Nicholas has slept longer at night and wanted to nurse less when he did wake up, taking up the slack during the day. Last night, for a wonder, Julianna actually slept through.…
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Kathleen M. Basi 