mr. snake is my friend
Allow your child’s creative mind and aptitude to create and explore and discover. This blog shares the moment my son on the autism spectrum makes friends with a long, lonely metal cable cord.
don’t fix me
Hans Asperger once said, The good and bad in a person, their potential for success or failure, their aptitudes and deficits – they are mutually conditional, arising from the same source. Our therapeutic goal must be to teach the person how to bear their difficulties....
i choose grace for myself
It's been 35 days. I'm officially a master at Zoom meetings and Google Hangouts. No longer do I reserve carry-out for special nights. Movie night, a once sacred family occasion, is now commonplace after dinner each night. Strange, yet,...
pink lipstick is our new normal
We welcome our first day of social distancing and online learning with warm pajamas, mugs of vanilla steamers, and a sparkler-like excitement about all the newness that surrounded us. Chromebooks position themselves in a row at our long, wood kitchen...
remember how to play
In the middle of the week, on a typical school morning, a small surprise awaited me outside: snow. Small hills cascaded over the birdbath and tree stump in our backyard. Our street, normally separating us from the neighbors, was now covered in a...
finding joy
At the beginning of 2019 I made a commitment with myself that I would give to the world and my community in service, and not out of servitude. What does this mean? To me it means, doing what fills UP my bucket rather than what is required of me by social...
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