Kyle and the mountain of lettuce So, for the past five weeks or so I’ve been grappling with the kitchen. The Pavilion kitchen. The kitchen through which runs all the food consumed by the Ranch every day. Which is a lot. Last week we hired Miss Gigi to run it. Gigi actually knows what she’s…
If people with Down syndrome ruled the world
Alaina with Guide to Good Health At the National Down Syndrome Congress convention a few weeks ago Casey, Calvin, Lori and I attended Dr. Brian Chicoine and Dr. Dennis McGuire’s five-hour workshop on promoting and maintaining health–of all kinds–in teens and adults with Down syndrome. It was an inspiring day. Drs. C&M have run The…
Witnesses to their lives
Kelly, age seven, with wild plums Jerry told me last night that he’d talked with a grandmother who’d gotten in touch with the Ranch wanting to donate several hundred dollars from sales of the book she wrote about her young grandson. Of course we were delighted, and want to see that book, too. I woke…
New guys on the Ranch
Clyde, back row second from right, and Tom, front row right I stopped by the Pavilion to check on “the new guys,” who aren’t new yet but are doing their trial week. Trial week is a chance for prospective residents and the Ranch to find out if we’re a match for each other. Most have come to…