Sep 28th, 2009
by Mary P Jones.
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Last Monday I walked through the grocery store feeling like a weight was crushing my chest, a tight lump in my throat the only thing between me and tears. And part of me wanted to self-indulgently sit there on the linoleum floor under the flicker fluorescent [...]
May 11th, 2009
by Mary P Jones.
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Just as we've found a method that works for us for finding childcare for our son Austen, who is autistic, we've (slowly) developed a method for training our sitters so that the visit goes as smoothly as possible both for our children and the sitter. Needless [...]
May 6th, 2009
by Mary P Jones.
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kandyjaxx on Flickr
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When my son Austen was two, my husband disclosed his addiction and spent a morning on the phone desperately looking for a marriage therapist willing to see us on a weekend. But once we had that appointment, having no family nearby, we had to spend another [...]