On My Favorite Thing To Do, Listen To Music I want to talk about my favorite thing to do. It is to listen to music. During my spare time and when I hang out and listen to music it makes my day. And when I am in the mood and have time to listen to … [Read more…]
A huge and relatively recent influence of mine is Scott Dinsmore of Live Your Legend. His podcast, “How to find work you love,” highlights one sentence that impacted me in a gigantic way. In it, he asked, “what is it that you can’t not do?” “What is it that you can’t not do?” After pacing … [Read more…]
My birthday weekends with my boyfriend Mark Struby will always be special in my heart. We both born in July and always celebrate our birthdays together. This year, we met in Kansas City, Missouri where my sister Lindsay lives now. Mark flew from Austin, Texas to Dallas, Texas to Kansas City, Missouri all by himself. … [Read more…]
There is a lot of things that makes us laugh and I can name some of things that makes us laugh. When My Dad start dancing at dinner that make me laugh and also when My Dad start singing he does have a good singing voice and wonderful singing voice and sometime it also makes … [Read more…]
I use to drive a car and learn to drive too and it have a lot of responsibilities and things to know to drive a car. I need to read the manual first and to know about everything about in the manual and need to read and study in the manual. I pass the test … [Read more…]
What is it like to grow up with a sister who has Down syndrome? I sit back and reflect, trying to imagine life without Leah. The first thing that comes to my mind is that I don’t know who I would be had I grown up any other way. So much of my foundation is … [Read more…]
I always and forever think about all the things about me as a little baby. What I did in the past when I was a little baby. And I will have a lot of wonderful things I do the rest of my life. And I want to say thank you very much to have a … [Read more…]
I was born on July 1, 1982 in Sioux City, Iowa at St. Luke’s Hospital and I was born with Down syndrome and the doctors tell my mom and my dad that your baby has Down syndrome and they tell my mom and my dad that I may never learn to walk and talk and … [Read more…]
Upside Down is a blog that looks at life through two different lenses, one from the perspective of a person who has Down syndrome, and another from the perspective of a person who does not have Down syndrome. That said, I believe it important to introduce the blog with an extremely brief overview of what … [Read more…]
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