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Q19: Writing With Grace

Writing With Grace

What do you think about the end of the book? “My impossible dream is to find somebody to love.” P 205 What was your overall impression of the book?   Did you read Grace’s book?

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Q10: Writing With Grace

Writing With Grace

McFarland explores some disability theory and tries to understand her own thoughts through a disability studies lens. “And how does this relate to me? Am I afraid that like Grace, I’ll be seen as someone who can never be a

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Q18: Adventures in the Mainstream

“Sometimes I have a problem with the family rule about not inflicting my kids on strangers. Too many of those strangers want to dismiss my son and those like him as useless, pitiable, and ignorable. It’s not my job to

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Q11: Adventures in the Mainstream

Q11) “But Ned refused to board our boat when the time came.  He insisted he wanted to ride back without me. I was mad.  We were holding up the line of our shipmates, breaking the Palmer family rule Cathy and

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Q1: Adventures in the Mainstream

Adventures in the Mainstream

Q1) In the Introduction, Palmer talks about a boy who has Down syndrome he used to see as a child. “I’ll never know what happened to him, whether by some miracle he found a life worth living. I can only

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