Hot-Off-the-Press: GraceArt Cyber-Week-Plus, Locavore & Artisan Deal!
Monday, Dec. 5: THIS SALE HAS ENDED! We have a skeleton inventory (3 sets!) Thank you All who purchased. We will print more cards probably by spring or before but these were the last of the archival inks & papers if not these designs as well. The bottom design is...
Gone Now
Every holiday we gathered, in the chairs on either end of the dining room table sat our parents--our mother nearest the kitchen, our father heading the furthest end. Each year, the last decade-and-a-half, we watched as they, bookending us, grew more feeble....
Thanksgiving Blessings
My sisters and I will be gathering for our first Thanksgiving as orphaned adult children. We will resume the tradition started by our father: When we sit down to the blessed feast steaming before us, we will go around the table, each of us sharing...
Our Differences & “What Others ‘Think'”
Today's usual Wednesday "Autism/DisAbility" blog entry is posted over at imamomtoo. Please click over and read my take about taking responsibility for our own feelings when we "think" others are staring at or judging our children with autism...
Why Do We Fear What We Will Someday Become?
Tell me: Why do we fear what we all, as humans--if we are lucky--will become? And that is: Old. Why do we disrespect what we will someday be? Why, when we are still young, do we embrace stereotypes about a certain age? Stereotypes that damn us and perpetuate...
A Lucky Literary Resurrection For Nashville
Last December found Nashville book lovers mourning the loss of our city's last full service independent book store. It was a sign of turbulent times in the publishing world. Soon, three Borders here would also turn off the lights and permanently close their doors....
Bi-Monthly Autism Orientation Tomorrow
Tomorrow night I will do something I do six times a year. I will stand before a room of parents, grandparents, teachers and other greater Nashville community members. I will follow an hour presentation by a speech therapist, a psychologist--by some...
