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Yogabilities™: Peace as a civil right

Doesn't everyone deserve to be peaceful? When I tell people that one of my occupations is teaching Yoga, there are some common responses. Oh, I love Yoga! I take it at the gym/the cool…

MelindaJune 14, 2017

Autism Bink Family Nature Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

Welcome to Autismville

Shimmering minnow leaves AUTISMVILLE I can’t tell you it is an unpleasant thing to live in the quirky neighborhood, on the far side of the river, a good ways from the thickest part of…

MelindaJune 8, 2017

Autism Bink Family Parenting Uncategorized Writing

Shirts must be pink, or occasionally "pool"... She speaks in code, Bink does, and I endeavor to decipher. She works rather hard, in her neuro-atypical way, at making sense of the world. As her mother…

MelindaMay 13, 2017

Autism Bink Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

Light it up blue?

Autism Awareness month is April, World Autism Awareness Day, April 2 and, in case the day lacks color, (as if any day with Autism in it could be dull), the mysterious Namers-of-Days-and-months have painted…

MelindaApril 3, 2017

Autism Bink Nature Parenting Writing

Dear November

Dear November, It is a month of tributes to poetry, 30 poems in 30 days in some circles. So, being a bit amiss, Miss Construed, I write a letter instead. You are special…

MelindaNovember 4, 2016

Autism Parenting Poem Poetry Uncategorized Writing

Autism Nation

Autism Nation My same different daughter at twenty three years, is riddled with anxiety and complicated fears Loose beads with holes -- they should be on a string! -- and thunder and lightening, that power…

MelindaSeptember 27, 2016

Autism Bink Parenting Uncategorized Writing

Write her

Bink at the beach, watercolor by Melinda THE WHY NOT THEN When my daughter (alias Bink) was younger, sometimes friends or family would say,” Why don’t you write about her?” I was dismissive, back then.…

MelindaAugust 18, 2016

Autism Bink Parenting

AUTISMS

Challenge, sadness, worry, fatigue….I can write just as many pages about how those words relate to mothering a child with disabilities as any other “special needs parent”. I surely can. But here’s the truth: there…

MelindaJuly 13, 2016

Yogabilities™: Peace as a civil right

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