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 8, 2024
“Toyland, Toyland, magical girl and boy land. Once you cross its borders, you can never return again.” (Babes in Toyland) There’s No Santa Aaron and Tommy got off the school bus and our world changed. Tommy walked in the front door, threw his...
by Mary E. Ulrich | Nov 5, 2024
Thanksgiving Week: Day 1 I love the story of Thanksgiving. It is a story of inclusion (click here) and interdependence. A group of pioneer families risk it all and travel to a strange land. They gratefully accept the help of the Native Americans who look different,...