Compassion Learned: Self- and Others
So this is how it happens. Now I know. Several times a year, a story will rack up tens of thousands of social media shares amongst special needs families and our greater community. Some child or young adult will have been asked to leave an establishment because...
My Tipper Gore Moment
This may seem a prudish post. This is. My Tipper Gore moment.... The bass beats of the rap music cranking during our morning dance blast class at the Y sent me back to the 80s of my 20something years. As I attempted, but failed, to keep in step, I mentally wove and...
Details. It’s in the Details
As I locked the back door, I heard the sudden ssshushh in the tops of the deciduous forest behind my condominium. What was that? A storm signaling? Like that day and the days before it and the days before those, it was another hot one in August. I put my keys and...
Advanced Course in Skills for Life
It's one of the most maligned, undervalued, and belittled professions in existence. Even by members of the same gender. Sometimes, especially by the same gender. Yet, everyone had or has a mother, or was at least conceived by one. I've always maintained that...
Graduation to the Real World: See and Hear Us
It's Pomp and Circumstance time. Many of my peers are celebrating the graduation of their sons and daughters from high school and a forthcoming path to college. Or, they're cheering them on as they walk across the stage of their soon-to-be college alma mater. If...
Independence Day Nowhere in Sight & A Blog Update
At our old, round, love-worn pine table, backlit by the kitchen window, she sat crisscross, her purple manicured toes up to her mid-calves bare to the winter chill. For days during our snow, sleet, rain, stop-and-go late January through mid February, we'd been...
Grace Goad, Art & Autism Capture the News Spotlight Locally + Nationally
"All news is good news." We are grateful for the coverage by News Channel 5 of Grace Goad's art and a blurb for our inclusive nonprofit social enterprise we're launching to support artists with disAbilities to create, exhibit, and sell their work. Note the "cooking"...
