Category Archives: Intellectual Disabilities

The Winter of our (dis)content

The holidays were low-key.  We spent Thanksgiving with Dennis’ family, and Christmas in North Carolina at my parents’ house.  Our finances were a mess, so we kept things simple.  This period taught us a lot about the key to happiness.  … Continue reading

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Our Return To Richmond

My feelings at this point:  Conflicted.  It’s never easy to walk away from your dream job and that is what I had just done.  At the time it was scary, but looking back we certainly made the right decision.  I … Continue reading

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Preparing for the Move

Once the decision to move was made there was much work to do.  Our first choice would be; where do we go?  This was not difficult.  Except for the experience we had with the city bureaucrats, we both loved Richmond … Continue reading

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Should We Stay or Should We Go?

After four years of putting down roots in Charleston the decision to leave was a little difficult, but then again we really had no choice.   It was clear that the Charleston County School System did not have the best interest of … Continue reading

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Ben’s First Day of School

We, quite frankly, had no idea what to expect on Ben’s first day of school.  To this point we had been showered with good fortune by having available to us places like the Cerebral Palsy Center, Children’s Hospital and finally  … Continue reading

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