Writing the good read
My son, as you know, is mildly autistic. One of his longest lasting super-interests has been politics. He talks about it, argues about it, makes the exasperated noises usually uttered by older, more jaded people. I came home from the store today, and Darling Son came rushing to the garage, looking guilty, like he’d been…
I saw Darling Niece this week for the first time in about 9 months. She lives in Northern California and has a life that is dominated by one sport after another. She was in Portland with Coach Snarky Brother for the final softball tournament of the season, which coincided with me being in the same…
When I was a child, a weekend loomed like a vast expanse of free time. As a single working mom, the weekend looms as a vast expanse of chores and to-do lists. So when I was asked to be a part of a parent panel teaching would be teen volunteers about life with an autistic…