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A Simple Life, a Childlike Faith
Fact or fiction
By
Linda G. Howard
Working and living within the intellectually disabled community, I found that there are many common bits of misinformation and urban legends that haunt our population. These distortions diminish all of us. Here are a few of the most common misunderstandings. They don’t understand insults or compliments. The fact is that they love compliments and completely…
Exploring a Brave New World
By
Linda G. Howard
The date is March 11, 2011. As I sit around the dining room table with my family who is visiting their ailing father, I’m hurriedly writing my daily blog. My granddaughter is playing an on-line video game. My daughter, Carol Howard Merritt, is quickly editing the forward she wrote for a friend’s book to email…
Rereading
By
Linda G. Howard
Each new generation learns valuable lessons that may be missed by a preceding group of people. I love rereading my favorite books. Yet, I came from a tradition in which you watched a movie or television show only once. You certainly didn’t read a book more than one time. Nevertheless, I would pull out the…
Failing health and other knicknacks
By
Linda G. Howard
Sometimes I found myself wanting to treat my husband’s failing health as though it were a knicknack. In that way, I could put it on a shelf and forget all about it. I fought almost daily with this notion of detachment. Psychologist call this “compartmentalization.” In The Special Gathering, which is a ministry within the…
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