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A Fantasy For Autistics
Last Monday Emma was profiled in A Slice of Life Series that the blog Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism has been running through the month of April. This is the blog I wish had been around when Emma...
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Be Honest And Why That Often Hurts
Every morning I sit down to write a post for Emma’s Hope Book on this computer in my studio and look at the traffic speeding to and from Manhattan on the 59th Street bridge. Sometimes I already know...
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Emma’s New String And A New School
Emma will be attending a new school this fall. We were given a placement by the Department of Education mid June that was not over an hour from our home. This new school seems to understand the...
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Anxiety, Fear and The Buddha
Emma’s new school begins Thursday. I’m grateful for this because the pulling sensation in my stomach coupled with the constriction in my chest is increasing with each passing day. As awful as that...
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A First Day And Life Continues..
Bounce, bounce, twirl! Bounce, bounce, twirl! I’d provide a visual, but I don’t have one, so you’re going to have to take my word for it… Yesterday was Emma’s first day at her new school. Emma was...
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Finding That Sticky, Messy Area Between Perfection and Despair
“Compare Emma to Emma. Don’t ever compare her to another child.” This was said to me years ago by someone whose name and face elude me. I was reminded of their suggestion this morning as I rode the...
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Dreams of a New World…
Moral dilemmas continue to plague… I have never seen myself as one of those mothers who poured all of her competitive spirit into shamelessly promoting her child. A kind of stage mom gone rogue,...
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Embracing Change
When Em turned two, I said, “I’d give a limb to have her ask for something.” When Em was three, I said, “If only she could tell me what was wrong.” When Em was four, I said, “If only she … Continue...
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“Splinter Skills” and Other Words We Use
When Em was not yet three years old we received her diagnosis and began the long trek through, what appeared to us at the time to be, the treacherous terrain of autism. All the things we admired, her...
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How we Communicate – A Podcast
*This was an assignment for English Composition to create a podcast about something you care about. This is mine after many revisions and incorporating notes from my teacher. A written transcript of...
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