by Mary E. Ulrich | Dec 5, 2024
photo credit: Holtsman Aaron’s Building Community Mix Making New Friends In my previous post: St. Nick| Community Building and Batman Socks, I talked about using the folk-story Stone Soup to begin a discussion about differences, scarcity, gifts and building a...
by Mary E. Ulrich | Dec 1, 2024
St. Nick and the Batman Socks photo credit: frannie60 In Christmas 1981, Cincinnati Public Schools was involved in two class-action lawsuits. Our family was caught up in both of them. The first concerned the right of Aaron, our then seven year old son, who had an IQ...
by Mary E. Ulrich | Nov 21, 2024
Hi Everyone, On Thanksgiving, I wanted to thank each of you for being part of our Climbing Every Mountain community. It’s been an exciting experience to meet new friends and connect with people who care about people with disabilities. Now, there are over one...
by Mary E. Ulrich | Nov 19, 2024
St. Nick and the Batman Socks I shared my story about St. Nick and the Batman socks. I told you I would give the Batman socks to our granddaughter. Well, as you can see in the picture above, Isabella picked the Batman socks right off our tree, made a face…and a...
by Mary E. Ulrich | Nov 12, 2024
Celebrating St. Nick and Two Special Sons Family Traditions: Because of our German heritage, St. Nicholas’ Feast day on Dec. 6th was the start of the Christmas season. The tradition of putting out our socks (or shoes) was always great fun. Aaron, our son with...
