“The world is going to hell in a wheelbarrow, and this is not going to do retarded people any good.” Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger, Mental Retardation, February 1994. I was skimming the current (April 2010) issue of Intellectual and Development al Disabilities: A Journal of Policy, Practices, and Perspectives, the official publication of the American Association on…
Selena Mania!
In March I chanced to read an article in the Texas Monthly commemorating the 15th anniversary of the death of Mexican-American singer Selena. I did remember when she was killed, but had seen her at the time as a minor pop singer in whom mostly young people would be interested. Needless to say, the article…
Fields of Dreams
What an amazing April—the best Texas has to offer. Cool nights, warm days, a real spring as opposed to our usual “wham bam thank you m’am” transition from winter to summer.Don, Phil, Jerry and I went for lunch Friday at the East Side Café in Austin to look at Dorsey’s gardens in the back where…
Still Life
Waiting for the carpet cleaners to arrive, I was shuffling through boxes of photos and albums in our home office in Benedict House. Naturally, I got distracted and soon was flipping through mementos of our former lives. Dang! We were a pretty darned good-looking pair back in the day, despite eyeglasses the size of pie pans and…