Dots and Dashes
She speaks in code, Bink does, and I endeavor to decipher. She works rather hard, in her neuro-atypical way, at making sense of the world. As her mother and Chief Advocate and Interpreter, it is my dharma to help the world make sense of her. We walk parallel to the others, next to but ever […]
7 AM ( more autism awareness)
7am I entered your room quietly, with loving stealth, stood inches from where you slept curled into the warmth of your sleep nest, pausing one round moment to take in the sight of you, just to hug you with my eyes before we began the ritual we’d perfected over twenty four years of mornings. There […]
Light it up blue?
Autism Awareness month is April, World Autism Awareness Day, April 2 and, in case the day lacks color, (as if any day with Autism in it could be dull), the mysterious Namers-of-Days-and-months have painted it a medium sort of blue. I wonder who decided this; and how it was chosen, this perfectly ordinary second […]
I’m just the messenger
Sometimes, it’s a struggle to write. Lots of sometimes. There’s so much inside that wants to come out! So, picture this: I’m at my desk, all serious-like, trying to hone words into pictures, to allow the pen to move and accept what comes without judgement, and then to be brave and put it out […]
Alone, I am island
I am an unpopulated island in a teeming quicksilver sea. I am a sturdy outcropping, raw, rocky, ravaged by two thousand years of volcanoes, seismic shifts. I am a testimony to the chaos from which all life begins. “We’ll smooth, says the ocean, it’s what we do— soothe and smooth and flatten your sharp edges, […]
Of Names and Noses
Of Names and Noses I gave my daughter a blog name first and foremost to respect her privacy. Oh, I’ve told her that I write about her sometimes, because she is so awesome and amazing and interesting and people need to hear about things like that. I’ve asked her permission as well, and she has, […]
Cat Calls
for Super Guy 4 am, the favored time for felines in this house; to dance a catty jig across my soft belly, scale the cliff your side-sleeping body makes as it juts, dark and warm, one shoulder reaching towards the ceiling which, if I squint my sleep-eyes just so, looks quite like a February […]
Seeing Through
I am so pleased to share that the poem below was published on the Songs of Eretz Poetry Review yesterday! If you want to see the actual page with the Editor’s choice of photo, and check out Song of Eretz Poetry Review in general, click here: Update: This poem was also published in One Art […]
In the old country
“In the old country….”, he began and she thought, he’s confused again, he wasn’t there… and she remembered all the stories he told of growing up in Roxbury, only son of Albanian immigrants who worked hard in the bakery, and he as a boy worked alongside them. On a rare afternoon off, he’d […]
The Feather and the Leaf
Picture this: it was cold, and I stood among trees. Many, many trees. I looked up, and there they were. A feather and a leaf, floating through the air, not quite up or down but sideways, lifted along by some gusts of coldish wind. Could they be friends, and traveling together? I ruminated on […]