He suddenly interrupted my rapid fire questioning by impatiently pressing a spot on my thigh like an elevator button, crying out, “DEACTIVATE mother-mode! I repeat, DEACTIVATE MOTHER MODE! All systems shut-down!! This is not a drill!! Mayday! Mayday!”
Waiting for Night
Thoughts on Motherhood & Autism 2008 We’d reached the end of another crippling day. Alex was edgy, vulnerable, by evening, he’d reached the point of […]
Deposit Slip
I’m looking for a bank to deposit this cache of sorrow, an impenetrable safe, so a thief can’t steal my hard earned stash, try to […]
Starting Line Up
Meet My Team! My Dad Wren & Gladys Ellis already had four daughters, when my father made a surprise appearance 8 years later, with a […]
May 2016
It’s May and my Facebook news feed is littered with pictures of graduation and prom, college acceptance letters and mission calls. It’s May and my […]
Brain Plascisity
My brain is a short hand secretary making quick, concise lists like a court stenographer: If it pleases the court we’ll start with everything I should have already done; please see exhibit A. Refilling prescriptions, registering the car, rewashing the laundry I forgot to put in the the dryer. For the last two days. Letting my child out of the locked closet.
Autism Whisperer
Like horse whispering only with a rodeo clown element On Soothing & Being Soothed When I was a little girl I used to flip through […]
Graduation Day
It’s May and my Facebook news feed is littered with pictures of graduation and prom, college acceptance letters and mission calls. It’s May and my […]