Jo’s Blog

My sister and our Dad visited the house we grew up in today. Lucy sent me this photo of the front hall and four dozen more of the rest of it – the bedrooms, the living rooms, the library, the kitchen, the garden – since first seeing [...]

Sometimes, I imagine how a famous person might handle a disability in their lives. Julia Roberts and a son with Autism. President Obama and a daughter with Cerebral Palsy. Bill Gates and a kid with Down Syndrome. I imagine their glamorous [...]

I saw “Beginners” a few weeks ago. It’s a movie about an elderly man who comes out to his son a few days after his wife died. They had been married for forty years and, according to him, she had married him knowing the truth. [...]

I’ve known Nutan now for 33 years – an auspicious number for Christians since Jesus lived on the earth for exactly that number of years. That, and the fact that we call her God’s Elder Sister. She is my nanad (my husband’s sister. Now wait [...]

My Dad talks to himself all the time. He’s done it for years – because he says he “gets better results.” He’s reading a magazine and he looks peaceful and absorbed but his thoughts keep coming through. As he’s [...]