Slowing down

Art Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

The Poet Says….

Allow me to share a poem that debuted on the Songs of Eretz Poetry Review this morning. This is the third of my poems to be published there in the Last week. All three are…

MelindaFebruary 26, 2018

Autism Bink Family Parenting Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Returning to Autismville

Good day! Below, the second of three of my poems that are eligible for the Readers Choice Award over at Songs of Eretz. Here is the poem, along with the Editor's words and poets…

MelindaFebruary 21, 2018

Nature Poem Poetry Writing

When overwhelmed, lavender. When nerves fray, pockets empty, mind seems a tangle of wires, crossed and stripped— lavender. When ears ring, head throbs, eyes tire and lose focus from the too-muchness of it all— lavender.…

MelindaFebruary 1, 2018

Bink Writing

Putting My Foot Down

Putting my Foot Down I’m no stranger to disability. I’ve been Bink’s mom for 25 years. I know lots of individuals with varied special needs, some of them my Yogabilities™ students. I count a few…

MelindaJanuary 26, 2018

Cats Family Spirituality Writing

It’s a Good Thing

The View from Here Hello from my couch, where I’ve been planted for the majority of my waking hours for the past twenty five days. Who’s counting? I sure am. I’ve been following doctor’s orders…

MelindaJanuary 3, 2018

Autism Bink Family Parenting Women's Issues Writing

Caregiver’s Lament

I’m on the couch, somewhere in between sitting and reclining. My right leg is extended out in front of me, clad in a cast to the knee and elevated on an ottoman with a large…

MelindaDecember 18, 2017

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

Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Uncategorized Writing

Autographing Autumn

I was walking, first field-- verdant, moist , glorious carpet of greens, and the woods edged closer, with a beckoning trail, and then the floor was pine needles, punctuated with wily old roots in no…

MelindaOctober 22, 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

Art Cairns Crushes Nature Spirituality

STONE LOVIN’

Dear reader, is there something in the natural world that you are really drawn to? Birds, clouds, pine trees? Lightening storms? Is there something for which you have an unrelenting affection? For, me, it’s stones.…

MelindaAugust 9, 2017

The Poet Says….

Returning to Autismville

Lavender