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April is….on Autism, Art, and Friendly Commerce

APRIL IS… As you may know, April is Autism Awareness Month. It’s also National Card and Letter Writing Month. Please allow me to make things more interesting by combining the two! Bink paints once a…

MelindaApril 19, 2022

Family Mindfulness Parenting Poem Poetry Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

What’s in a name? More pub cred, musings

Mid-April already? Time is such a liquid concept. Today, my already may be your finally. It is already April? Finally, it is spring. In February, my finally was louder than my already. Finally, Winter has…

MelindaApril 12, 2022

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Poem Poetry

AUTISM AWARENESS DAY Redux

I'm re-posting this poem in recognition of "World Autism Awareness Day." As D, a sister mom from my autism tribe, has said, " We are aware. We are very aware." Autism Awareness month is…

MelindaApril 1, 2022

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Uncategorized

Folliculi, Follicula

TEND and SAVOR “Why the hair is attached to the head it will not come out please respond to me in a video.” These were the first words Bink communicated to me today, shortly after…

MelindaJanuary 10, 2022

Death and Dying Family Love Meditation Mindfulness Parenting Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Integration

It has been almost a month since my mother passed. It wasn’t unexpected. She was old and ill and tired. She wanted to go, was impatient with the way those final months seemed to drag…

MelindaNovember 16, 2021

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

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 You Know?

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

Family Love Mindfulness Nature Poem Spirituality Writing

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

Folliculi, Follicula

Integration

Headway Happening Here

WALKING HER HOME

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