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George Estreich’s super-fine book The Shape of the Eye has been picked up by a different publishing house and is now available in softcover, with a new cover and as I understand it, an extra chapter (Laura is now eleven!). This book is superb; not just superb as a memoir by a parent of child [...]
I'm going to come clean here: When I first saw "Moxie Dolls", I shuddered. I think it was the use of "z" in "girlz", I think it was the bright packaging. I'm not sure. I think it was the "z". But whatever it was, it was a classic case of prejudice – I hadn't [...]
Month with Moxie: Celebration Giveaway Moxie was born in May 2010 with a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. She had already miraculously healed from her diffuse fetal hydrops and the holes in her heart. She was named "Moxie" as she had shown that she was full of it: courage. Verve. Vigor. Moxie has challenged us [...]
This is a Month with Moxie, a month of celebrating Down syndrome, striving to increase Down syndrome Awareness. In reaching out to With a Little Moxie's Down syndrome Awareness Champions, I met Stephanie, mother of Molly and the designer/creator behind Moxie Clothing. Stephanie told me that this month is also Dwarfism Awareness Month. I was [...]
There is a large sign-language training program in Tucson, Arizona. I know this because in the year that I lived in that town, people would practically pee in their pants when they saw my ginormous hearing aids. They'd start to sign furiously. They refused to talk to me unless I was looking directly at them. [...]
Month with Moxie: Celebration Giveaway Moxie was born in May 2010 with a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. She had already miraculously healed from her diffuse fetal hydrops and the holes in her heart. She was named "Moxie" as she had shown that she was full of it: courage. Verve. Vigor. Moxie has challenged us [...]
Back when I was pregnant with Moxie but without any moxie of my own, I was slip-slithery-sliding all over the place in treacly grounds of depression. I was struggling for a type of..what is the word?… Relief. That's it. Relief. I was so consumed with worry about who Moxie would be, about her future. Grappling [...]
Month with Moxie: Celebration Giveaway Moxie was born in May 2010 with a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. She had already miraculously healed from her diffuse fetal hydrops and the holes in her heart. She was named "Moxie" as she had shown that she was full of it: courage. Verve. Vigor. Moxie has challenged us [...]
Month with Moxie: Celebration Giveaway Moxie was born in May 2010 with a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. She had already miraculously healed from her diffuse fetal hydrops and the holes in her heart. She was named "Moxie" as she had shown that she was full of it: courage. Verve. Vigor. Moxie has challenged us [...]
Month with Moxie: Celebration Giveaway Moxie was born in May 2010 with a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. She had already miraculously healed from her diffuse fetal hydrops and the holes in her heart. She was named "Moxie" as she had shown that she was full of it: courage. Verve. Vigor. Moxie has challenged us [...]
