This summer, when Grace was not in a camp (Full Circle, Easter Seals, ESY-extended school year-Talker Camp, and her beloved South Carolina-based Camp PhiPhi,) or her summer job at Goodwill, art therapy, or her very last semester of therapeutic horseback riding before...
Tomorrow, my recent high school graduate, now 19, will be picked up by a school bus for a regular school length day and travel downtown and back at the end of the day. By federal law, students with disAbilities who do not graduate with a general education academic...
From his active Facebook persona and well-established blog, I knew that author Robert Rummel-Hudson was a bit edgy. And, (my bad,) I'd never heard of the author until he appeared on a Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson panel of parents discussing augmentive assistive...
By the time you read this, I will have visited three more art centers/programs for people with disAbilities in North Carolina. I've been dropping little hints here since the spring that I'm exploring creating an integrated (both artists with and without...
Over bowls of chips and salsa, “the queen mother” quietly recommended that I read this book. A year went by and over some other assortment of waist-widening grub–a buffet spread prepared by one of our sister Mothers From Hell, the queen mother, our...
Yet another must-see at Nashville's iconic Art Deco Post War, former Post Office housing the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. It's a two-for-one, really, if you've not seen Sensuous Steele. Starting this weekend, in addition, visitors can breathe in the...
From Heartache to Hope: middle tennessee families living with autism, a book by Leisa A. Hammett & photographer Rebekah Pope. Click here for more info plus ordering details.
