There's been a lot of chatter on the 'Net about multi-colored pumpkins, and pumpkin buckets for Halloween this year. Teal Buckets, Teal Pumpkins, Blue Buckets, Blue Pumpkins... Teal Pumpkins are all about food allergies. A Teal Pumpkin on a doorstep means that the home offers food-allergen free goodies to Trick or Treaters. There's a lot …
She let go. Without a thought or a word, she let go. She let go of the fear. She let go of the judgments. She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head. She let go of the committee of indecision within her. She let go of all the ‘right’ reasons. Wholly and completely, without hesitation or worry
Originally published on Paresky Flitt's Insights website page. My husband wrote it. I then undertook the task of editing it. I would love to show you the "before," but I'm not allowed to do that. Let's just say my specialty is taking the complex, researching it, and making it easily understood while preserving the integrity and …
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My son has lived with his father, my fearless co-parent and former husband, full-time for 14 years, and only recently did I manage to ditch my iPhone for an hour-long yoga class. I got divorced. My ex assumed residential custody. I never stopped being Mom. You don’t stop being a parent when your child is …
Co-parenting with an ex of any sort -boyfriend, girlfriend, spouse, partner - is difficult during the best of times. The reasons your relationship didn’t work out will come into play each and every time you interact with your ex, whether you want them to or not. Being a co-parent means putting aside all of the …
Intellectual and physical disabilities affect approximately 10% of the population. (1) A parent’s journey with their disabled child is akin to a never-ending winter storm: spectacularly beautiful and simultaneously stressful. Families affected by disability navigate an endless blizzard of Individualized Educational Plan Meetings (IEPs), therapists, medical specialists, and psychologists. While steering their young charges through …
Mary sits in front of her computer keyboard, silently willing her fingers to tap out just a few more words. She is alone in her kitchen, sitting at her laptop in front of big bay windows. “Just ten more minutes… or 250 words, whichever comes first” she promises her wrists, both of which are …
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laire stands in front of her bathroom vanity in nothing but a towel, holding her iPad over the back of her head, trying use the vanity’s mirror to angle the iPad's front camera to capture the bald spot she is certain has started at the end of her hair’s part. She holds the iPad in …
Originally Published in Storyzine Volume I, Issue VII September 2018. Cryss stood, head held high, arms at her waist, and stared into the Toyota’s headlights. The once midnight blue, now faded navy Camry LE glared back at her. Are you up for this? it seemed to ask, stubborn, defiant. Despite its 95,000 miles - nearly …
Originally Published On The Mighty on October 31, 2018 and The Mother Rogue on July 5, 2018 as Dear ‘Same-Abled’ Mom from the ‘Autism’ Mom You Met at the Gym Yesterday I was blow drying my hair in the women’s locker room mirror when you and your two girls came in from the outdoor pool. You …
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