Travis loves caring for Pete While obsessively reading everything I could get my hands on regarding Down syndrome when Kelly was still a toddler, I came across an intriguing (and heartbreaking) paper from a professional journal entitled: The Curious Case of an Overfunctioning Mongoloid. At that point the article was about 30 years old, but the…
The past few weeks have been a blitz of activity. Two very special people Jerry and I met on our travels to professional conferences in California and Canada came to visit. Both brought hearts brimming with love and concern for our Ranchers, and heads simply bursting with ideas. A week ago this evening, Daniela and…
What if?
Kelly, about about six weeks old Yesterday Drew Mariani, on the Relevant Radio Network, had as a guest Wesley J. Smith. The topic for discussion was the “wrongful birth” suit of an Oregon couple whose daughter was born with Down syndrome. The couple had had every screening test available specifically to avoid having a…
Just hangin’ with the guys
Calvin Keeney, RA of Gabriel House Of the six Resident Assistants, Calvin Keeney, RA of Gabriel House, has been with Down Home Ranch the longest, having begun working as a Weekend RA in October of ’08. I’d always thought that Calvin had heard about the Ranch from his buddies at Mary Hardin Baylor who worked weekends,…