Special Needs and The Beauty of Going Slow
The other day I sat crying to my friend – I cried, telling her I feel like everyone else’s time is speeding by, and we are stuck. It sometimes feels as though Paige is where she was a year ago… she still can’t crawl, she can’t sit up, and she can’t talk. Every year that […]
Why I Published “My Diary” (Good Pastures!)
Many people pick up my book, begin to read, then quickly stop – they come to me and say “I feel like I’m reading your diary! How do you feel comfortable with me reading this??” The question seems funny to me, since it’s already passed the publishing stage – I had this thought before I published, and thought very deeply about why I wanted to share some of my deepest thoughts.
Respectful Parent Advocacy in the Medical World
I didn’t know the real meaning of parent advocacy until I was a parent myself – I had experiences with it beforehand. My mother fought for me, defended me, batted off psychologists and friends who labeled me as depressed when I actually had a disease that was simply hard to diagnose. Yet I didn’t fully […]
PRN
I grew up with a mother who exercised – I grew up with a mother who tried so hard to implement an exercise routine, that in order to do so she had her 3 middle school children in the living room doing Leslie Sansones “Walk Away the Pounds”. I never understood why, until I’m a […]