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Headway Happening Here

Smile Last time it was Tuesday, six months and four days ago. The incredible Dr. S managed a first— pedaling the chair back just a bit, your face more accessible, sunglasses shielding your eyes from…

MelindaSeptember 25, 2021

Autism Death and Dying Family Love Mindfulness Nature Parenting Spirituality

WALKING HER HOME

Adrift. That’s the word that floated into my teary vision as I sat in my car outside the facility my mother has resided in for the past seven years. These after-visit pauses have become part…

MelindaAugust 30, 2021

Autism Bink Family Love Mindfulness Parenting Spirituality Writing

What do we know for sure? I find myself wondering, lately, if we mostly hold the beliefs that suit our ease. For some, self-contempt can provide a kind of familiarity which becomes belief. For others,…

MelindaJuly 12, 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

Autism Bink Family Love Mindfulness Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

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

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Gifts and Visitations

It’s been just over a month since my dear friend and soul sister Marina died, after a quick and nasty tussle with appendiceal cancer. She visits my consciousness daily, in ways both fleeting and substantial.…

MelindaJuly 31, 2020

Headway Happening Here

WALKING HER HOME

A little more “Pub Cred”.

Gifts and Visitations

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