Amy Julia Becker is a writer and speaker on disability, family, culture and faith, the author of four books and the host of the Reimagining the Good Life podcast. A graduate of Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary, she lives with her family in western Connecticut.
![The author with her teenage daughter, Penny. "[N]ow as Penny approaches adulthood, I return to that scared young woman with that beautiful new baby, and try to remember what I have learned." (Courtesy Amy Julia Becker)](https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AJB-Penny-Walking-Final-1-400x267.jpg)