Present-Time Consciousness
I'm getting better at this. I had a third-morning-in-a-row worry-fear-anxiety visitor today. Growing stronger, I was able to shoo it away by repeating to myself a few times "present-time consciousness." And, then I was able to come out of my meditation...
Growing with My Daughter
All the axioms are true and apply: I'm a work in progress. | Aren't we all? | Grief is a process. Then there's disAbility grief. A form of grief that never ends. If dealt with, it lessens. It diminishes. But, because there is no death, no making a...
G’bye Lil’ Garden Condo & My Year of Walking Nashville
"The only thing that remains the same is change!" My nurse practitioner, Sally, would cackle after she'd spout those too-true and sage words each time I'd visit her during my seemingly never-ending years of perimenopause. I've hit menopause now...
Vandy Children’s: Following Your Heart, Best Advice
Today is moving day (to our new condo) and that's a twist and turn of a story that I will be sharing here about a year from now. And the details on the why will forthcome then. Seriously. In virtual time, however, I'm over at Vanderbilt Children's...
Thursday Travelogue: Chattanooga Town!
One way to get to Athens, Tenn., where Grace had an art show in April at the McMinn County Living Heritage Museum, is to travel down I-24 from Nashville through Chattanooga town and then up toward Knoxville. Athens is somewhere out there in between. The first Sunday...
Not Broken
We are not broken. We who have disAbilities...or DIFFabilities...such as my daughter... We. Are. Not. Broken. Like all of us, she--my daughter--is a child of God. How could something of divine lineage be broken? Like all of us, she brings Gifts to this world. And a...
Special Needs Talk: Proceed with Caution
My intuition told me not to say it. I'm glad I listened. In time, my own child would be diagnosed with a disAbility and I got it that my good intentions may not have been received so warmly.... I admired my neighbor for many reasons. She also had a daughter with...
