Between My Windows

Between My WindowsWriting by Wasecans

with Developmental Disabilities

Made possible by a grant provided by the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council from funds appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature and the McKnight Foundation.

Cover art by (clockwise, from top left) Diane Bluhm, Chris Wick, Maggie Gahler, and Angie Ulmen.

Designed and edited by Bryan Boyce.

Printed by Sexton Printing in St. Paul, Minnesota.

INTRODUCTION

“Were those her exact words?”

I often heard this response when sharing early

drafts of these works with others. The question’s

polite skepticism shows how rarely people with

developmental disabilities are credited with

creative writing capabilities. Was that his precise

phrasing, her own choice of title? Did he really

decide to write on the subtle distinctions of

electoral politics? The simple answer to each of

these questions is “yes.”

The 29 pieces in Between My Windows fit

the goals of the workshops that fostered them:

to encourage the creative expression of people

with developmental disabilities and expose their

writing to a broad readership. Though adapted

writing methods were important, these works are

not paraphrases. Several authors wrote by hand

with a pen and paper. The rest spoke aloud for

transcription, their writing read back to them word

by word to confirm its accuracy. I offered minor

assistance with grammar, spelling, and clarity.

The resulting stories, essays, and poems reflect

the diversity of the people who wrote them.

Common themes certainly emerged, from animals

(Chad Sommer’s “Cow Tipping in the Dark”) to

family (Nicole Madson’s “My Stepmom”) to work

(Diane Bluhm’s “Making Boxes”). The strength

of Between My Windows, however, lies not in

similarity but variety. Each piece displays a unique

quality that sets it apart from the rest. Some may

even ruffle a feather or two.

This collection represents only a small number

of people. Bound by the limits of a single instructor

and one short summer, it lacks the contributions of

nonverbal authors and countless other community

members with creativity to share.

Yet listening and learning can take place in

any setting or circumstance—a grocery store, a

classroom, a family dinner. The project extends

beyond reading, writing, and the pages you hold in

your hands.

Exact words are flowing from mouths and pens

across the street, across the globe.

Bryan Boyce, Editor

August 2006

CONTENTS

Chad Sommer Cow Tipping in the Dark 5

Carrie Dietrich Carrie’s Dreams 6

Chris Wick Personal Fan 7

Josh Gertz America’s Railroads 8

Heather Duke Tupac 9

Michelle Meyer The Press That Never Leaves 10 the Celebrities Alone

Matt Miller Cedar Valley Services 11

Jay Boyce Jay Got Bitten by a Fish 12

Diane Bluhm A Bird Story 13

Nicole Madson My Stepmom 14

Alicia Rew My Dogs 15

Michelle Meyer The Roses That Don’t Like the 17 Sun

Matt Miller Politics 18

Mike Miller Food 19

Nicole Madson Nicole’s Horses 20

Chris Wick Air Conditioners 21

Alicia Rew My Favorite Snow Cone 23

Maggie Gahler Wisconsin Dells 24

Josh Gertz You Should Go to the Fair... 25

Chad Sommer Rudy, the Gay Dog of 27 Ellendale

Diane Bluhm Making Boxes 28

Josh Sorensen Cars 29

Heather Duke My First Concert 30

Mike Miller Saving My Money 31

Michelle Meyer from The Family That Never 32 Got Poor

Maggie Gahler House 1 37

Chad Sommer Arabak Was an Arabian 38 Horse

Jay Boyce The Wright Brothers and the 39 Crazy Horses

Diane Bluhm Cute Little Dolls 40

BETWEEN MY WINDOWS5

COW TIPPING IN THE DARK

by Chad Sommer

Have you ever been cow tipping?

When you tip them over they have a heart attack.

If there’s a bull there you run,

run so fast!

If there’s a bunch of bulls you should run so fast to

get out of there or jump a fence.

When you go cow tipping, you scare them and you

say Rah! and you tip them over.

They can’t see at night.

They have bad eyesight.

BETWEEN MY WINDOWS6

CARRIE’S DREAMS

by Carrie Dietrich

I miss my grandma very much. I wish I could

meet her again if she was alive. I like the way she

made apple pie. I like the way she took care of my

mom. She took care of me when I was hurt.

BETWEEN MY WINDOWS7

PERSONAL FAN

by Chris Wick

I purchased a fan last year at Target in

Mankato, Minnesota. Randy and I bought the fan.

I paid first. It was $59 or $60. After I put it in the

cart, we went back to Randy’s vehicle and I put

it in the trunk. When I got to House 2, I showed

everybody my fan. I got upstairs in my room,

opened the box, and looked inside. There was

the fan. I put it on my old table. After I read the

instructions, I installed the first cover piece. Next

I installed the small piece. Then I installed the

blades. Finally, I put the second cover on. It was

tight. There used to be a screw, but it fell out.

BETWEEN MY WINDOWS8

AMERICA’S RAILROADS

by Josh Gertz

I have a toy train set because I love trains so

much. I love trains because we have one here in

town. Sometimes they go in different directions.

They go as long as it takes, because those things

die hard and last long, the black ones. I heard this

from my seven train movies, America’s Railroads.

It’s about finding your true self, because they live

forever, because those things sure do.

BETWEEN MY WINDOWS9

TUPAC

by Heather Duke

I went to Holland Elementary School in

Brooklyn Center. I was sitting in my desk when

they announced on Channel One that Tupac

Amaru Shakur had been shot seven times in the

chest. I ran out of the classroom into the bathroom,

called up my brother James, and told him that

Tupac had been announced dead at 6:00 this

morning in downtown Chicago.

I got home, turned on the TV, and the Tupac

story was on every channel. I got down on my

knees and said a prayer for him. He was my hero.

BETWEEN MY WINDOWS10

THE PRESS THAT NEVER LEAVES THE CELEBRITIES ALONE

by Michelle Meyer

Hollywood is a nice place, but for goodness

sake leave the celebrities alone for once in their

life. It’s like they can’t hang with other people

without them thinking that they’re pregnant,

dating, not getting along, married, sleeping,

shopping, walking barefoot in the streets, or too

skinny. Why do people care? That’s not any of

their business in the first place. Celebrities can’t

even live without people on their backs all time.

Hello press, they’re like everyone else! They do the

same stuff that we do day to day.


CEDAR VALLEY SERVICES

by Matt Miller

CVS in Owatonna is expanding. They put up a

picture camera at work that is taking all kinds of

pictures of how it was before and after. They are

making sure that everybody at Cedar Valley stays

away from the construction site. Everybody’s been

doing a good job of following this rule. They have

it all blocked off now. They have a big orange fence

on the west side and another one on the north

side. It’s been really hot outside, too. At Truth Paint

in Owatonna, it was really hot. Everybody’s been

drinking plenty of water around here.


JAY GOT BITTEN BY A FISH

by Jay Boyce

When I was in Lake Francis on an inner

tube, I got bitten by a fish. It was a big fish. I was

swimming to the raft. He thought I was a worm. It

left a mark. I will get my revenge on that fish.


A BIRD STORY

by Diane Bluhm

Ducks like to swim. They like to eat. They like

to walk. They like to stick their beaks in the water.

They like to fly. They like to climb trees. They like

to quack. They like to eat bread. They like to run

around in the backyard. Sometimes you see some

in the front yard, too. They like to run. They like to

look around. They sleep. They like to drink. They

walk away. They like to play. They like to lie down.

They like to sit down. They like to make noises.

They like to paddle their feet. They like to play in

the sand. They like to climb on picnic tables. You

see them in parks. They like to look at people. They

like birds. They like to sing songs.


MY STEPMOM

by Nicole Madson

My dad got married to Hue Thanh. She is from

Viet Nam. She is a dress maker. I have wedding

pictures of her and my dad. She is coming to the

USA to live and see her family. I can’t wait until she

comes to the USA.


MY DOGS

by Alicia Rew

Diamond had her puppies last week. She had

three girls and three boys. She’s very protective

over them. Sometimes she will even bite Levi. Levi

is a nice, kind, and gentle dog. His first owners

didn’t want him because they said he was mean,

which I don’t believe. Levi is the father of the

puppies and there’s these funny things he does. He

acts like a cat a lot. He climbs on top of the couch

and he likes to drag his butt on the ground, trying

to get attention. The next funny thing about him is

that when hears thunder and lightning, he hides

under a blanket and tries to dig a tunnel. One time

when we locked him up, he tried to go inside the

cupboard and hide and he knocked everything

out of there. You should see him when he gets all

excited and hyper. He runs all around the living

room like a race car.

Oreo is a miniature black and white Shih Tzu

and she had her puppies the day after Diamond

had hers. Oreo had three girls and one boy. Levi

was a dad to her puppies, too. Oreo’s puppies are

very cute and she’s kind and she even lets you

hold and touch them. She doesn’t nip or bite at


you like Diamond does. She was so busy with her

puppies once that she wasn’t eating or drinking

and she got sick, but after a while she started

eating again, which was a good thing. Before she

had her puppies she was very hyper and playful.

Oreo was so hyper all the time that when she saw

people should would jump up really high and hop

onto them. She gets in the way a lot because she’s

so small. My mom thinks that me and Oreo are

alike because we’re both hyper and we both like to

be annoying.


THE ROSES THAT DON’T LIKE THE SUN

by Michelle Meyer

Sun shines like a star.

Roses pose for a picture.

Mall calls people.

Sun runs all the time.

Spraying can is trying to find the pan.

Corn is born for a short time.


POLITICS

by Matt Miller

The elections are coming up now. There’s a

lot of heated issues like ethanol, pollution, the

war, jobs, primaries—where they’re going to be

held and in what states. They have caucuses as

well. There’s a difference between a caucus and a

primary. Caucuses are more of an open vote and

primaries are more private, like in a real election

where you vote in a booth. Taxes have been

another issue. People have been worrying about

how they’re going to pay for road construction

projects and buildings and businesses. These are

real hot issues, especially at the local level. Corn

has been another issue. I don’t know how farmers

and going to keep up with ethanol production.

How people are going to pay for college education

has been another issue, especially at the state level.


FOOD

by Mike Miller

We grilled out. We cooked meat. We had junk

food. We had grape, lemonade, and cherry Kool-

Aid. We ate a watermelon. We spit the seeds out.

You don’t want to choke on those. We had beans

and chicken. We had sweet corn. We peeled off the

husks.


NICOLE’S HORSES

by Nicole Madson

I have a favorite horse. His name is Bobby. He is

gray and white. I like to ride him and take care of

him. Last year he was sick and almost died. He had

really bad asthma. They gave him medicine for it.

He got better, so that made me feel better. They did

not want to tell me that Bobby almost died. Bobby

is a great horse to ride. Someday I want to have a

horse. I have some horses in my room. If Bobby

dies it will make me sad. He likes to eat horse food.

Horses don’t smell the greatest. I have given Bobby

a bath and groomed him.


AIR CONDITIONERS

by Chris Wick

The old air conditioner had about a six foot

cord, but the plug connected to an extension

outlet. I turned it on. The old one was a Sears. It

was free. It was a 1956. It was an old channel.

I was walking down the sidewalk and this guy

asked, “Do you want a free air conditioner?” and

I said, “Yes.” I took it and walked away. I lifted up

the window and put the old one in and I shut it

halfway so it was nice and even and straight. Then,

all of sudden, it worked from 12:00 to 1:00 but

it quit at about 3:00 or 4 :00 pm. I took it out. It

was not heavy. It was just a medium. I unplugged

it. The temperature was 70 degrees inside the

machine after it had quit. I took it out. I had to

shut it off first. It was on medium or high. Then I

trashed it.

Then I went down to the store and purchased

a new one. I had to pay. It was about $15. The old

store was 15 or 16 years old. The new store had

a name. It’s The Air Conditioner Store. It used to

be an International Falls store, but they moved it

to Owatonna. After I bought the air conditioner, I

opened it up because it was in a box. When I put


it in, it was about medium heavy. It’s easiest to

install. After I put it in, I had to save the old plug.

I pushed the remote control and I set it at about

40 or 50 degrees. Inside the machine, it’s about 30

degrees. It’s so quiet, but sometimes it goes Er!


MY FAVORITE SNOW CONE

by Alicia Rew

At the fair I always go to Waseca Shave Ice. It

has a big piglet on it, holding a snow cone. They

have over 10 flavors. My favorite flavor I always

get is watermelon.


WISCONSIN DELLS

by Maggie Gahler

I go watch movies out of town. I like walking.

I like cats. I’ve got a nephew in town here. I like

going shopping. I go see my neighbors. I’m getting

a new great nephew. I’ve got one sister in town. I

like going out for supper. I get my school yearbook

next fall. I like labeling boxes. I’m going to

Wisconsin Dells this summer and I’m going to go

down to Florida for a week.


YOU SHOULD GO TO THE FAIR SO YOU WON’T GET BORED AND BE A BUM

AROUND THE HOUSE ALL DAY

by Josh Gertz

The fair can be a lot of fun. Sometimes they

have games there. It gives you something to do,

to walk around. Sometimes they have food there.

Sometimes they have pizza there. Sometimes you

can look around. Sometimes they have animals

there. Sometimes they have the little guinea

pheasants there. They can chase you around. You

should duck down like a brick to get them to stop

chasing. Take your time while you’re ducking

down. Slow down and be patient while you’re

doing it. You should look behind you before you

make your move. They start small before they

grow up. Sometimes they can pluck you like a real

hammer and then you can bail out and get out of

sight. It really helps if you leave them alone for a

whole year. They don’t have to do this to you. If

you leave them alone, basically they’ll leave you

alone. Sometimes they like to run. Sometimes they

make these weird noises.

Sometimes they have chickens at the fair. You

can look at them, but don’t try to touch them or


jump on them. They can eat you. They sure can.

Just don’t even try to do anything with them. At the

fair you can walk around, but you’ve got to keep

your hands to yourself. Just don’t even try to do

anything with them at all. They can pluck out your

hair and use it as a love nest. You can look around.

That’s fine. You sure can. The fair here in town is

a free fair. They finally changed the sign. You can

go on rides if you pay attention to what you’re

doing so you won’t get hurt. You need to look both

ways where you’re going. Sometimes they have

mini donuts there. You can eat them anytime you

feel like it, just in case you have nothing better for

food at your home. Sometimes you can look at the

rides to see how they run. You should go to the fair

so you won’t get bored and be a bum around the

house all day. That’s why we have to have fairs.


RUDY, THE GAY DOG OF ELLENDALE

by Chad Sommer

Rudy is a gay dog. Rudy gets out of his kennel

all the time and he runs five miles into town and

he visits girl dogs, but he doesn’t like girl dogs. He

likes boy dogs. At home, he tries to get into the pig

pen because he thinks the pigs are gay too. Plus,

he goes to visit other dogs and he sleeps with boy

dogs. He’s just a gay dog. He’s just a dumb gay dog.

He’s neutered, but he’s just a dumb gay dog.


MAKING BOXES

by Diane Bluhm

They just pick you up in the morning at a

certain time—probably about 9:00. We’ll just

keep on working during the day till the day gets

done. Then they take us home. We’ll just keep on

working till we get all the work done. We tape the

boxes up. We put dividers in them. After we’re

done making them, then they wrap them up. They

put them on the skid. Then they ship them back.

Then they take them back to Itron and put parts in

them.


CARS

by Josh Sorensen

My brother and I are building a car for me. It’s

a Mustang. The back part is red and the rest of it

is flames. We put leather seats in it. The dashboard

is dark brown. My brother and I took in it in the

backyard and did donuts. Afterward, we put brand

new tires on.


MY FIRST CONCERT

by Heather Duke

It was loud.

People were screaming.

A lot of people.

There was a big fight.

A girl with red hair was in the fight.

A dizzy blonde was in the fight.

And two other girls were in the fight.

The fight made me feel very anxious.

The girl with red hair started the fight. She started

to call the dizzy blonde names

and the dizzy blonde got really upset

and just hit her. The dizzy blonde and the girl

started to fight

because the girl pushed the blonde

and she got pushed back into me

and I got into the fight.

Before the fight started they were singing

“Say My Name” and people were screaming

and dancing and holding up signs

that said “I Love You Destiny’s Child”

and then P. Diddy came onstage

and said a few words.


SAVING MY MONEY

by Mike Miller

I want to save money for a new bike. I want to

see what’s going on over at House 4. I like my job.

It gets me more money. I like to get paid. I like to

lock my bike up every night.


from THE FAMILY THAT NEVER GOT POOR

by Michelle Meyer

Mandy was a sweet little girl who loved to go

through her mother’s clothes all the time. Mandy’s

parents were middle class. Mandy’s parents had

four kids, Jenny, Emily, Courtney, and Mandy.

Mandy’s family lived on a big dairy farm.

One evening, Mandy’s dad Chad asked for the

homemade chicken to be passed. Her father said

that they were coming to butcher some male cows.

Emily asked her daddy when he would build her

a big library for her birthday. Her father told her

that they had to remodel the whole house because

the house was starting to fall apart. Her momma

couldn’t help because she was pregnant with

twins.

“Who wants the rest of the mashed potatoes?”

asked Chad.

“I’ll have the rest of the mashed potatoes,” said

Mandy.

“Well eat up girls, because we are going to get

rid of the old wood in this house,” said Chad.

“Chad, when is the shingle guy coming?” asked

Mandy’s mom Nancy. “He’s coming back next

week sometime, but I need to know so that I can

go to store to pick out colors for the walls in the


house.”

“I can call and ask him if he can come sooner

than that,” said Chad.

“Mommy, are we rebuilding the whole house?”

asked Mandy.

“Yes we are, dear. Thank you for asking us,

Mandy,” said Nancy.

“How much are we getting for the meat?”

asked Mandy.

“We are getting $169.82 million for 200 of the

cows, but half that money goes for the remodeling

of the house,” said Chad. “I’ve already ordered

700,000 more cattle so that really takes most of

the money, but we have the milk check in the mail

today.”

“Do you know how much this check is?” asked

Nancy.

“Yes I do. The check is $489.62 billion,” said

Chad.

“That’s a lot of money, dear,” said Nancy. “We

need a bigger kitchen, Chad.”

“I know that, but one thing at a time,” said

Chad.

“Okay, good. We’ve got that covered. Well what

are we gonna do with the deck?” asked Nancy.

“James Conway said he would do the

remodeling of the steps,” said Chad.


“But Chad, one of these days one of the girls is

going to fall right into the staircase,” said Nancy.

Then Mandy knew that she and her sisters

were going to stay with friends and relatives until

all the remodeling was done.

“I want the girls out of their way until they are

done with the whole house,” said Nancy

The next morning, Mandy was sitting in her

aunt’s living room. Courtney called her momma

and the phone rang. Courtney waited for Momma

to pick up the phone. Mandy told Courtney, “They

can’t drop everything for us.” That’s when poor

Courtney started to cry.

Their aunt came in the room and picked

Courtney up and said, “What’s wrong?”

“What Mandy told me,” said Courtney.

“Well, Mandy’s right about that because there

is a lot to do on that dairy farm of yours. If they

called you all the time they wouldn’t get anything

done,” said their aunt.

Just then, the phone rang and Mandy picked up

the phone and her momma talked to her and asked

if things were going well over there.

“Yes, things are just fine,” said Mandy. “How

are things going over there so far?”

“Well, they’ve got the shingles done already,”

said her mom. “They chucked out the old stove,


the old cupboards are out, and the kitchen looks

like a mess or did look like a mess. They made the

kitchen bigger than ever before. The remodeling is

going faster that we thought.”

“When can we come home?” asked Mandy.

“Not for a while,” said her mom.

“Why can’t we even visit you?”

“I’m sorry Mandy, but you can’t because we

are afraid that if you are over here that you could

get hurt, and we don’t want to take that chance

yet.”

“Why can’t we see you?”

“Because I’m afraid that one of these men

might run you over with a truck or kidnap you or

your sisters. For that matter, they might trip on one

of you and that’s why.”

“Well, have they got our upstairs fixed yet?”

“They haven’t even started yet.”

“Why is that?”

“Well, they just added 290,000 feet onto the

house so that’s why.”

“Do they have the kitchen done yet?”

“They just finished that last week.”

“Whoa, they are fast.”

“Not that fast.”

“So what else have they done?”

“Well, they are just starting to do the walls.


When you and your sisters come home there will

be so many surprises and our family home will be

so different.”

“Where are you now?”

“I’m outside. I won’t be calling you anymore

because your dad doesn’t want me to call you guys

all the time, so I will be writing to you guys all the

time. You will be receiving letters from us all the

time or you might get a big envelope that says our

name on it with lots of letters from weeks or even

months.”

“Momma, I miss you.”

“I miss you too.”

“Don’t go, Momma.”

“I have to. Tell your sisters hi for me, okay

honey?”

“All right, I will.”

“Well I’ve got to go. See you later, okay?”

“All right.”

“Bye bye. Love ya.”

“What did you find out so far?” asked

Courtney.

“Well, they are doing good on the house.

Momma will be writing instead of calling us,” said

Mandy.

The next day they had much that they did miss,

their parents and all.


HOUSE 1

by Maggie Gahler

I like it in House 1. I’ve been here three years.

The people are nice. Tiffany is a nice staff. Marsha

is a nice staff, too. Sometimes I go in my room

and watch TV for a couple of hours for peace

and quiet. I just got a new TV stand between my

windows. I have two windows in my room. I

straighten my room out. The phone won’t stop

ringing. It makes me nuts. Sometimes it won’t give

me a break. There’s a cat once in a while, upstairs

in the morning.


ARABAK WAS AN ARABIAN HORSE

by Chad Sommer

I used to have a 28-year-old Arabian horse

named Arabak. Mom put me on her when I was

10 years old and she didn’t even buck. She was my

horse forever. I rode her with my neighbor girls in

Colorado. My neighbor girls rode her all over.

She was running the fence line at 6:30

one morning, whinnying back and forth at the

neighbor’s horses. The horses were whinnying

back to her. She was down at 1:00 and the vet had

to come out. The vet and the vet tech both checked

her. They said it was a twisted gut. Then they gave

her medicine and she was just fine. We gave her

water and hay. At about 6:00 she was down again.

We had to call the vet by 6:30 and that was it. The

vet came out and said she had a blown up stomach

and a twisted gut. They put her to sleep. They said

that we could put her in the sling, that I could haul

her in and put her on IVs. I said, “No.” I told them

to just put her to sleep, because she was gone. The

vet cut half of her tail off and braided it for me.


THE WRIGHT BROTHERS AND THE CRAZY HORSES

by Jay Boyce

The flying Wright brothers jumped out of

a barracuda. The Wright brothers said, “Don’t

eat us. We’re too big for you.” Then the sweet

little dust bunny asked the barracuda to spit out

the Wright brothers. The barracuda was busy

trying to swim and eat plankton. Then the Wright

brothers saved the barracuda and crab for lunch.

The Wright brothers decided to eat fish. Then

they jumped over the meadow and saw a couple

of crazy horses jumping out of the lamp. The

barracuda was trying to invent a sugar cookie that

was so hard, like a rock. The Wright brothers saw

a cute little star. Then they saw a couple of bunnies

jumping out of a crazy horse. Then they saw a little

birdie. The little birdie was hopping on the bunny

trail. The bunnies asked the Wright brothers,

“Which way are we going? Are we going east,

south, or west?”


CUTE LITTLE DOLLS

by Diane Bluhm

When I was little I played with dolls. I used to

tell them stories.

CONTRIBUTORS

Diane Bluhm thinks this is a good book.

Jay Boyce has a nice family. He wants to work at Best Buy.

Carrie Dietrich would like to meet the people who read her stories. She likes when people come to visit her house. She likes to go to activities.

Heather Duke was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has three sisters, Jessica, Manda, and Chrissy, and one brother, James. She is in love with Chris Brown. Some of her stories are not true.

Maggie Gahler is a nice person.

Josh Gertz is a good person because he likes to be around people. He likes to talk a lot with his friends. He is a very good friend.

This is Nicole Madson’s first year doing this writing class. Some of her stories are about horses and her friends. She thinks this writing class is fun.

Michelle Meyer is the weirdest person in her family. She has a cat. His name is Salem. He is so cute. She has two best friends, Emily and Nicole. She lives on a boring farm. She’s a junior in high school. She loves to write stories in her free time. She loves to read. She enjoys talking on the phone. She loves to listen to and sing music at times.

Matt Miller likes to read the newspaper.

Mike Miller likes to play games and watch movies.

Alicia Rew likes dragons, wolves, Pokémon, and Sonic the Hedgehog. She loves her puppy Oreo. She is 14.

Chad Sommer is 27. He lives with his mom and stepdad. He has a miniature horse. She’s 31 inches and turning six this year. When he moves out on his own, he would like to live on a farm and raise mini horses.

Josh Sorensen is a nice guy. He’s smart. He’s going to move to Winona.

Chris Wick likes thunderstorms.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This project would have been impossible without

the support and assistance of people too numerous

to name. Thanks to Laurie Running and Advocates

for Developmental Disabilties for help in applying

for funds, Tracy Jevning and Ican, Inc. for lining

up authors and publicizing the release, and Brenda

Flintrop and the Prairie Lakes Arts Council for

providing a generous grant. Thanks to the families

and support staff of authors for fitting workshops

into busy schedules and encouraging the creative

spirit. Special thanks to Jay Boyce, a wonderful

brother whose imagination inspired this entire

project.

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