A MOTHERLESS DAUGHTER’S MOTHER’S DAY BLOG “Mother’s Day bothered me, if I thought about it. I used to give Mother’s Day gifts to my Nana, but after she died I started hiding them in the back of my closet. I don’t know why I didn’t just throw them away. Anyway, they stopped having us…
by Rachel Steuermann When the doctor says it’s okay… While observed in April, to me, every month is Autism Awareness Month. My son, Brian, diagnosed with autism at 18 months, is now 24 years old. For a little over a year, he’s been living in a house with four autistic young men as part of…
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk6kUm4banc&t=6s transcript below: March 22, 2019 “Writers don’t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit they don’t. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience you’d get maybe one book maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” I love this quote from the poet, Nikki Giovanni. She tells us…
Four years ago, I went to the Westport Health Department on Bayberry Road to get a Tine Test. I was happy, of course, to learn I didn’t have TB, but also because it now allowed me to begin volunteering at Bedford Hills Women’s Correctional Facility. More recently I’ve begun visiting York Correctional Facility in Connecticut,…