“Be Thankful. Dream Big. Never Give Up”
Check out the name of the website at the end. Wow!: Attitude is Altitude !
“Painting the Tale”
Big(er) cities should have everything, right? I'm always amazed when some tucked away pocket in my adopted homestate of Tennessee has some innovative service that our capitol city, Nashville, does not. One such case would be the work that Cookeville area...
Purple Healthcare 4 Autism: Some Things are Neither Red or Blue
"Jus' telling our truth," candidly explained my autism parent friend about the blog post featuring her family's healthcare plight. I cannot even recall now how I discovered the blog post excerpted with permission below....Late 2010, I featured...
The Secret of Truly Living
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. —Henry Drummond This reflection is an excerpt from Peaceful Living: Daily Meditations for Living with...
Project Onward: Autism & Art
Don't think I've mentioned it here yet this year: April is national Autism Awareness Month. So, except for the first two Monday posts this month, which continued the theme of aging parents-post my father's recent death, the lines between Art,...
Campaign for Mental Health
Olutoko by Kathy Tupper, one of 27 artists featured in the book: Stories of Hope in Recovery and the Healing Power of Art from the Creative Arts Project of the Middle Tennessee Mental Health and Substance Abuse Coalition. Find the book at Twist Gallery and Gallery F....
Aging Parents: the Good, the Bad & the Buddhist
photo: net_efekt, which first appeared on this blog here. The early spring air was unkindly cool as I gingerly slogged across a soggy post-storm yard to the mail box. Trees, grass, flowers announced the turn from winter. A large black BMW pulled out of my...
