The Shadow Song of an Autism Christmas
Guest blog post for Awe in Autism
I loved Christmas as a kid. The excitement of gifts was a small part of it, but what I really liked […]
Holiday Donating in a Way that REALLY Helps
Many of you know that I favor donating to small, local organizations that do hands on good with their funds. Though I do not have an exhaustive […]
A Monday, Changes – An excerpt from my next book “3 Pairs of Shoes”
First, the three shoes
Red shoes – the teacher. Red Shoes are slick, and shiny, with slim, wax covered laces. Her red shoes make a sharp heel sound when she walks down the hallways, followed by a clicking […]
“Dreaming is co…
“Dreaming is conceptual art of the inner self; there is no path in life. When we can accept there is no path, we can decide on a destination, making the footsteps a perfunctory affair. Values merely […]
The Way of the Bonsai
There had been great anticipation inside the hearts of the couple who, one day, gave birth to twin girls. Their efforts to continue in love, the image of themselves, perhaps embodied in the personality of another, […]
It’s All About Sex, So Quit Dragging Empathy Out Back For A Beating
My response to Eustica Cutler on her Daily Beast Post Autism and Child Pornography: A Toxic Combination
Opening Statement
Before I begin, I want to make it absolutely clear that I do NOT support the use of child […]
The Developmental Corset of Therapy, and How to Break It
I recently read a wonderful post on BBC Ouch, by a guest blogger named Mark Neary. In his blog, he wrote about how clinical jargon is used in his autistic […]
Bridges
there’s this bridge I’m looking for
i don’t know where it goes
but I’m sure it spans the distance
between our shores
on foot’s the only way I see
to trek this […]
Farewell Catarina, Farewell to Love
As I am a creature of patterns, though there is a vast difference between patterns and repetitious outcomes that slap me in the face. Despite my prodigious optimism, to see past persistant repetitious outcomes, I am […]
How Do You Teach A Fish To Fly?
What if we woke at sunset, and bedded down at the rooster’s crow?
What it we lived days lit by moonlight, napping through nights in the warmth of the sun?
Would we all rush to the seaside to […]