Photo credit: Image byLeonard John Matthews on Flickr I was thinking I'd take today off from blogging, but in my blog reading today, I came across something on acceptance that I'd like to share. My husband's absolute favorite line from the AA Big Book is "acceptance is the answer to all my problems today." When [...]
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Dirty Words
Photo credit: Photo bychristopherdale on Flickr When I was younger, my best friend Vickie and I used to hide under the stairs in the basement of my house and whisper curse words to each other in an elementary school act of defiance. "Asshole," I would say, and giggle. "Shit," she would whisper back, covering her [...]
A Little ee cummings to Brighten Your Day
Photo credit:by ToniVC on Flickr Rebecca left a comment on my my last post about her autistic nephew and her sister's love for him: "she loves him for who he is, he poses a tremendous challenge, but she would not change that for the world because she said that to ask for a different child [...]
No We Can’t
This is cross-posted at Two Women Blogging. Photo credit:Photo by tgbusill Four years ago, I listened to Obama speak at the Democratic Convention. I listened to him say there were no red states or blue states, just the United States, and I wanted to sing for joy. Here was someone who was speaking my truth. [...]
Control Your Child
Years ago, back when we had one child, an extended cable package and time together after said child was asleep, Mark and I used to watch Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, a makeover show starring five gay men who have clearly never spent any time with children. The Fab Five once made over the [...]
Yoga Lessons
Three years ago, I walked into my first yoga class looking for help and relief. I have had back pain since I was a teenager, probably too many years of carrying too many books in a bag fashionably slung over one shoulder. Or maybe just too many years of stoically insisting on carrying loads that [...]
Love You Just the Way You Are
My husband was talking to a relative this weekend who told him she was praying for our son: praying for God to take away his autism. My husband says he told her, "I really appreciate how much you love our son, but you don't have to pray for his autism to be gone. Our son [...]
