Parenting

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Writing

Brown Girl Hair Has Left the Building

Bink loves girl hair. For the uninitiated, this translates to long straight hair hanging down, on a female of any age. Preferably, the hair should be visible equally on the right and left sides of…

MelindaJanuary 16, 2020

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Writing

My Daughter, the Foodie

The Pies by Bink Bink loves food. In fact, her relationship with it goes far beyond what tastes good and satisfies her hunger. She loves looking at cookbooks, finding recipes on the computer, and watching…

MelindaOctober 30, 2019

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

WALKING

At twelve, thirteen, fourteen months, when most children begin to walk, or make a show of pulling their soft wobbly bodies to stand, you were content to sit and rub the carpet, watch the fibers…

MelindaAugust 12, 2019

Autism Bink Family Parenting Writing

Kind or Write?

I’ve been finding it challenging to encapsulate life with my daughter, Bink, lately. Hard to shape words for the page and even for casual conversation with friends, many of whom have their own experiences with…

MelindaJuly 16, 2019

Autism Bink Family Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

Dear Future Roadmaker

It's still April, still Autism Awareness month. I'm thinking, as I so often do, of all the people I have met on my journey of raising a daughter with special needs. There have been some…

MelindaApril 15, 2019

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

To Sleep, Perchance to Wake and See the Stars

Bink does not sleep solidly through the night, ever. When she was younger it was especially challenging, because she'd wake up and need me to be right there with her, and she'd often be up…

MelindaFebruary 18, 2019

Autism Bink Family Nature Parenting Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Arrivals

I'm posting this a day before my daughter's 26th birthday. I've always felt, with certainty, that we were meant to incarnate this way, as mother and daughter, at this particular time in the life of…

MelindaNovember 14, 2018

Autism Bink Family Meditation Parenting Spirituality Writing

The Meaning of Compassion

The Kuan Yin She keeps watch in the warm corner of my bedroom, her bearing almost more regal for the rivers of cracks and generous chips that mark her faded turquoise. Her right hand, the…

MelindaNovember 5, 2018

Autism Bink Family Parenting

Little Things

It was, in my home, an ordinary weekend morning. I rose before him, he before her, the felines were fed. I made three different kinds of tea, two prepared with stevia and soymilk, one with…

MelindaOctober 15, 2018

Autism Bink Family Parenting Singing Spirituality

The Sings

Someone posed the question: What is it that brings you untethered delight, especially when nobody is watching? I've a bouquet of such things in my heart, but the biggest flower right now would have to…

MelindaOctober 4, 2018