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Routines and Rigidity

On Fixing and Fretting
and finding equanimity
May 31
40. House Rules
A poem about something “ordinary”
Oct 24, 2023
25. In My Kitchen
September 28, 2022
Sep 28, 2022
If You Were Here...
Post Card #1
May 10, 2022
17. 'Tis the Season
December 7, 2021
Dec 7, 2021
10. Twenty-two
July 6, 2021
Jul 6, 2021
Foraging for Comfort
It’s been over two weeks since my son has seen anyone in person besides his parents. Well, we’ve waved to a few neighbors on walks around our block, so…
Mar 28, 2020
The Memory of an Elephant
My son hovers over me every time I open another box of lighting fixtures or cabinet handles for our new home.
Apr 12, 2019
How a Clothespin Might Save My Sanity
This little thing here? This cheap wooden contraption that hates the electric clothes dryer for making it obsolete? Well, it’s useful again, at least…
Jan 9, 2018
Patience and Progress
Yesterday, I read an article from journalist and autism advocate Liane Kupferberg Carter, writing on the Huffington Post. In “Autism Acceptance: Don't…
Apr 5, 2015
Forever After
Random objects in my house have become like my aging knee joints – after they’ve been sitting in one place for awhile, I can’t move them without hearing…
Aug 27, 2012
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