Autisms

Autism Bink Family Parenting Poem Poetry Spirituality Uncategorized Writing

7 AM, Redux

Dear Reader, I'm so pleased to share my first of three finalist poems from the Songs of Eretz poetry contest. Though I didn't win first place this year, each finalist poem is eligible for the…

MelindaFebruary 20, 2018

Autism Bink Family Parenting Writing

Inappropriate this I love Caillou. For those who are unacquainted, this is a cartoon show about a little boy by this name, geared to toddlers. “Yes,and….” you might say. Well, my twenty-five year old daughter…

MelindaJanuary 9, 2018

Autism Bink Parenting Writing

The Man in the Grocery Line

Certain special needs are invisible, or really hard to spot. This can include Autism, in some people. That isn’t Bink’s reality, though. Anyone of the neurotypical persuasion who takes more than a minute to observe…

MelindaNovember 23, 2017

Autism Bink Nature Poem Poetry Singing Spirituality Writing

BRIDGES

We are pausing on a bridge over the dwindling stream that crawls through our large, local dollop of green, Bird Park, because we always pause, she and I, on every little bridge that spans any…

MelindaOctober 16, 2017

Autism Bink Family Parenting Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

In Times Like These: Silver Linings of Caregiving

THANK YOU, TEDIUM In the midst of the interminable news; all-bad-all-the-time, chaos and tragedy, aftermath and predictions, close ups and sound bites that feed worry and starve hope, invite helplessness, inside this swirl, this…

MelindaSeptember 19, 2017

Autism Bink Family Parenting Poem Poetry Singing Writing

WHO WILL SING? Autism, Adulthood, and Home

Bink and the big, wide sea WHO WILL SING? She gets older, this daughter of mine, as do I, and the heavy question behind each day, and woven now into each year: what about…

MelindaAugust 24, 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

Dots and Dashes

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 Family Parenting Poem Poetry Singing Writing

7 AM ( more autism awareness)

7am I entered your room quietly, with loving stealth, stood inches from where you slept curled into the warmth of your sleep nest, pausing one round moment to take in the sight of you, just…

MelindaApril 20, 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

7 AM, Redux

Inappropriate THIS