August 20, 2010

Identifying Dangerous Animals

I’m kind of a jumble of emotions today.  The child psychiatrist appointment went well in that I loved the doctor and connected with her.  She asked lots of great questions and paid attention and gave me a big squishy hug at the end.  I’m still processing the insights she had and our next steps. [...]

August 18, 2010

We Stay. Home.

In the summer of 2005, when hurricane season began, I filled a big Tupperware container with batteries and flashlights and some canned goods and Band-Aids and whatever else I thought might help us in an unimaginably bad situation.

That August, my husband and I had only been in our first home for four months. [...]

August 16, 2010

We Walk a New Alphabet

I took some time away from thinking. (Not really.) I took some time away from talking. (That’s more like it.)

Mostly because my whole being came to a choking halt when my son’s developmental pediatrician drew a little diagram in front of me to help explain why she felt that my four-year-old has obsessive [...]