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Look up! The world is out there.

Reckoning Inside, just shy of sunrise, all over the land people awakened, reached for their small screens, hungry for the tiny words and pictures, memes and videos designed to amuse, entrance, distract from stress and…

MelindaJune 11, 2021

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Poem Poetry Singing Writing

Categorically Speaking

Dubbed One name for a collection of can’ts, of never wills and less-thans, a singular bucket into which they dump the myriad ways she comes up short. Autism. The rusty scuttle whose name expands to…

MelindaApril 14, 2021

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Accepting Autism

Ten years ago, April was designated Autism Awareness month. April 2 is World Autism Awareness day. There has been a movement towards renaming both of these, replacing awareness with acceptance . Robert Frost wrote," Always…

MelindaApril 1, 2021

Autism Bink Parenting

Literally

I suppose all parents have those first moments of recognition; the sudden realization that the world has pushed itself inside your child’s innocence, the bittersweet rush of comprehension that s/he will never be quite the…

MelindaMarch 2, 2021

Autism Bink Poem Poetry Writing

A little more “Pub Cred”.

One of my goals as a creative person is to put more of my work out into the world. If writing and art-making gets short shrift in the bigger picture of my life as Bink's…

MelindaJanuary 6, 2021

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Little Altars Everywhere

My home is host to little altars everywhere honoring lives lived, seasons arriving and leaving, the hundred sparks of grace and wonder, sorrow and understanding that pock and foliate hours and years squeezed into the…

MelindaDecember 29, 2020

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Notes from a Parallel Universe

I've written a fair amount about life with my adult child. As I plod ever so slowly towards creating a book about the journey, it occurs to me that the pace at which I'm working…

MelindaNovember 12, 2020

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Poem Poetry Singing Uncategorized Writing

Me and My Shadow Go to Market

It is May 2020, still early in The Covid Times. We take ourselves to the market, by which I mean our whole selves, me in my layers of self-consciousness— the run of the mill kind…

MelindaOctober 26, 2020

Love Mindfulness Poem Spirituality Writing

LATELY

The ground seems foreign, new roots and stones anchored in the middle of familiar paths, and my feet stumble more, much more. Are you stumbling too? Such heavy air, a downward press on the shoulders…

MelindaSeptember 26, 2020

Poem Poetry Writing

When the Beginning is also the Ending

I haven't done a lot with poetic forms. Something inside of me chafes at the notion of trying to fit the body of a poem, beating heart and all, into a prescribed number of lines…

MelindaSeptember 15, 2020

A little more “Pub Cred”.

Little Altars Everywhere

When the Beginning is also the Ending

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