• Remember that show in the 1980s called Life Goes On? Patti Lupone was the Mom, a young Kelly Martin played her daughter and a young Chris Burke played her son Corky (the first actor with Down Syndrome that I remember being on TV). The intro to that show was a little jingle that went something…

    Life Goes On, Fite Girl
  • Yesterday, I signed the name Beth Ranee Dembitz for the last time. And I had this crazy thought that the person with that name is a stranger to me. I am no longer her. She is no longer me. I’ve spent a lot of time in the last year thinking about the fact that the…

  • It’s been a year. A year since everything changed for my family. I thought I’d wake up sad on the anniversary, but I didn’t. I’m not sure what that says about me and I’m sure a psychologist would have a field day with it, but it’s the truth and so it is what it is.…

  • People are not responsible for the actions of others. We are all responsible for ourselves and our own actions, and I don’t know about you but that’s more than plenty of responsibility for me to manage. In the last few days I’ve watched Melania Trump and Hillary Clinton be questioned about the behavior of their…

  • I need to start going up to the front of the church for Children’s Time. Maybe children’s messages have gotten better since I was a kid, or maybe I’m just in that developmental phase where mid-life people can only digest 2nd-grade style messages. But I get a lot out of what we should probably be…