Good grief! Casey, Denise, and I have spent all day getting ready for the cruise. We leave tomorrow. The Ranchers are zinging off the walls. Their bags are packed (yes, we used a list). Medical records are stashed, passports checked and double-checked, snacks bought for the trip to Galveston, the vehicles cleaned and gassed and…
Ranch Story by Mark
Note: Mark has been coming to Ranch Camp since his early teens, and has lived at the Ranch since 2005. He brought me this story to share with others. It’s presented exactly as he wrote it with some parenthetical assists from me for clarity. Before I knew this place in my life it was beautiful…
Hector and Ashley
A surprising joy of becoming the parents of a child with Down syndrome is meeting so many families you wouldn’t otherwise get to know. With them you share joys and sorrows about which most of the world is happily unaware. You are on a journey together, and you learn to rely on and trust one…
Songs of Summer
Earlier this month, the Ranch shivered under sub-teen temperatures. The giant double palm in front of Benedict House that we feared would eat us alive someday may have bit the dust. Its giant fronds have turned brown. We won’t know if it survived until several weeks of warm weather have settled in. But already this…