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Before school starts, the older kids run
once round the field, as I walk past,
having stopped by the kindergarten to drop off my son.
Unperturbed, long-limbed, they look like perfection,
glossy locks flopping, elfin-faced and fast,
trailed of course by huffing slowpokes, who’re having less fun,
whose struggle reminds me of myotherson,
my disabled boy, who has always been last,
held down by deficits th...
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What About the Boy? A Father's Pledge to His Disabled Son
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Synopsis of WHAT ABOUT THE BOY? A Father's Memoir (Nonfiction)
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Stephen Gallup said:
"I'm likely to be a long time reading this tome. As far as I know, no other readrs have commented on the dreamlike, or even Kafkaesque, quality that some passages have, such as:
May I walk with you? Again, this is really a stupid thing to say.
You're r...more "
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How could anyone not love this little book! Some time ago I added it to my Amazon wish list and finally bought it last week to fill out an order to achieve the threshold for free shipping. The idea was to read it to my kindergartner at bedtime. I wasn...more |
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To Iraq and Back is a journal written through out the one year deployment of Jessica Scott. She writes candidly about her time at war, her feelings as a woman in combat and a place of authority, a mother having to leave her two young children behi...
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In 2006, the Don of American Literature was finally ready to address the events of 9/11.
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“I sensed then, and later formulated the conviction that wellness and potential are every child's birthright. And I'm quite sure that society is served when children have it.”
― Stephen Gallup, What About the Boy? A Father's Pledge to His Disabled Son
― Stephen Gallup, What About the Boy? A Father's Pledge to His Disabled Son
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“Misery, like prosperity or triumph, is the spiritual property of a nation. To forget a nation’s suffering is to create new misery in its place.”
― Wang Dan
― Wang Dan
“He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.”
― Arthur Miller
― Arthur Miller
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
“I knew that we'd never get there. I knew this, in the same way I knew Tati would never be a teacher, and that Benny would be the end of me. Life's about confirming what we already know. About making sure. ”
― Nami Mun, Miles from Nowhere
― Nami Mun, Miles from Nowhere
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Nov 08, 2011 11:55am
Thank you, Stephen. Obviously, I didn't dig far enough! :)
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