Mothering

Inappropriate THIS

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 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 Nature Parenting

CHASING A CHEESE BALL MOON

December, Massachusetts This time of year in New England, it’s pitch dark at 4:30pm. I’m working on accepting this gracefully, though I do stray from intention a few times a week into cursing-the-darkness mode. Last…

MelindaDecember 17, 2016

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