Okay, that’s a little graphic. But as you may have noticed in my sidebar, I’ve signed up, along with a bunch of other folk, to blog about autism awareness in April. Which is autism awareness month. In case we MISSED it. Autism, that is. Hey honey where is that autism? I know we just had [...]
Archive for March, 2008
27 Mar
Finding common ground
In the end, I think it came down to who had better drugs. When I got to school for the team meetings for Little Miss and Captain Oblivious, the school psychologist and I, fighting off migraines, compared notes and treatment regimens, shared hints and tips. We bonded. We were Sisters. It was good. It was [...]
25 Mar
My bodyguard
Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age — Jeanne Moreau Those who read the comments to yesterday’s post noted certain elbow-to-the-rib pokes by my offspring and friends, who have always delighted in pointing out the fact that when my husband and I married, I was 44 [...]
24 Mar
Who moved my empty nest?!
I was reading this article on empty nests, and it seems experts find this less an issue these days. I suspect that has something to do with the fact that women are no longer relegated to housewife status, and many of us have outside interests to pursue full-time once the children move out. Ah, there’s [...]
22 Mar
Sweet child o’ mine
I’ve probably attended a dozen court hearings at which parents’ rights to their children were terminated. Some of these parents have been my clients. From an objective third-party point of view, the children may be better off. The children probably don’t think so; these are their parents, after all, for good or bad. Many abused [...]
20 Mar
Making music matter
Two Christmases ago we got a nice Yamaha keyboard, on which you can record music you play, all different sorts of instrumental and percussion sounds, you know the kind. For the first year it moved about the house looking for a place to land, but since last summer, we created a space off the living [...]
18 Mar
Tourney for the Journey
My daughter is the Director of Residential Programs for Sierra Nevada Journeys, an environmental camp just off Lake Tahoe in Reno, Nevada. They’re running a fund- raising contest, and I wanted to share it with you, because I know many of our special kids are so deep into nature, we’d all like to go. It’s [...]
17 Mar
Shootout at the Mango Corral, Part II
(Part I, below) While the shooting continued, I thought it was the longest two minutes of my life. Until it stopped. Then footsteps came toward me along the side of the house where I couldn’t see. That seemed even longer. I crouched there, gun in my hand, trying to remember the sequence cock the gun, [...]
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