From the Daddy Desk: An Open Letter to New Fathers

Call me Latke.

This is an open letter to all you fathers who are new to Down syndrome. Just a list of five things I’ve learned so far:

(1) Your wife will join a Facebook group for mommies of kids with Ds. Upon joining, she will instantly become BFFs with 100 people you’ve never met. Be prepared. These people will never stop communicating with each other.

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I am the giver of social paranoia. Bwahaha…

Fertilizing our love…

Latke and I like to make fun of things. Way back in college, making sarcastic and inappropriate jokes was some of the first fertilizer for our blossoming love. Read the rest of this entry »


What to say if…

The world has been on my mind lately.  By the world, I mean the world of people out there who are waiting to pounce on me and my family to make us feel bad about LP’s Down syndrome.  No?  No one is waiting to pounce on us at all?  The world doesn’t revolve around me, you say?  I beg to differ.
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