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 [...]

July 27, 2010

Let Me Count the Ways

Last night I sat down at the computer and made a List.

I like lists. Usually I scrawl them by hand on a notepad. I picked up the habit from my mom — she always has a small yellow pad on her kitchen counter-top. Our handwriting is so similar I sometimes look at something [...]

June 16, 2010

Sometimes my Vocabulary Threatens to Narrow to a Few Choice Expletives

I’m having a hamster wheel kind of day.  I can see where I think I’m going.  But I’m waiting.  Waiting to hear if a doctor will give me a label, a simple word, a diagnosis to work with. (Sensory Processing/Integration Disorder doesn’t qualify a child for state services.) We have an appointment at the [...]