Category: amazing people

  • Treatment Instead of Punishment

    Treatment Instead of Punishment

    You may have read the story when it happened.  On May 22, 2015, J’Aire Lee, three years old, was found dead on a swing in Maryland. A neighbor called the police and said his mom, Romechia Simms, had been pushing him on the swing for “an unusually long period of time.” That time turned out to…

  • Guest Post: “Just” Cerebral Palsy? Depression, Dillemas, and Delights

    When I found Chrisa’s beautifully poignant corner of the Internet, I was immensely encouraged. You see, I have cerebral palsy, and though it’s a developmental condition, I was floored at the parallels between Tim’s challenges and my own. That is, until my sophomore year of college. There was a series of events that happened that…