Relationships, Part II: Grace in the Time of Corona
Quickly, twilight was dimming down the warmth and visibility of our late afternoon walk. Thanksgiving was a week away. But my mind was digging into the archives of 2006. Back to another walk on this same park road also during the thinning veil of fall. It was a...
Relationships: A Year-&-a-Half-Plus of Loving & Learning
As we approach 2021 with held breath and fingers crossed, I've compiled a series of mostly Facebook posts that I wrote between January 2019 and April 2020 and publishing them here. I've been wanting to do this for some time. The feedback received was that they...
Pandemic Reinvention: Grace in the Time of Corona
I don't know who is the woman pictured to the left of me. Probably a model. Whomever she is, she inspired me enough to screenshoot her photo last January. I discovered her image yesterday while searching for the photo of Grace and I that bedecked this blog post. The...
Loving What Is: Grace in the Time of Corona
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." —Oscar Wilde Increasingly, autism research produces "aha" moments for the scientific community. And, as a recent joint study from University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Virginia...
Loving Ourselves: Grace in the Time of Corona
Yet another female friend of "larger body proportions" has inspired me with an authentic social media post about loving the all of herself. This was my reply turned blog post. When I cut off my blonde curls and went silver and steel, a friend from college that lives...
5-Book Holiday Giveaway-Plus: Grace in the Time of Corona
COVID Self-Care 101 = Read a good book! A free book to five lucky winners from yours truly. Happy Holidays! ...Nashville is, of course, known for its musical prowess. For several years when I moved back here and answered the "what do you do" question, I'd have...
Even Mama Bears Mellow: Grace in the Time of Corona
It's been a long time since a gaggle of adolescents or children blatantly made fun of my daughter with autism. The scenario was familiar. It's par for the course, unfortunately, when a loved one has a disAbility. Children stare, elbow their friends, cup their hands to...
