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Working for Just Community: Now, Then, Always

Going through an old box yesterday, I came upon a yellowed, frayed 9.5-by-12-inch certificate issued in 1950 to my grandmother, … More

black history month, communication, discrimination, racial discrimination, social justice, social justice work

A Conversation Between My Mother and Me

My mother had 13 years from the time the youngest of her three sons—that would be me—went off to college … More

biography, connection, loneliness, memoir, personal story, story

Love in the Time of Segregation and Discrimination

I came upon a box of a few dozen random—utterly random—photographs yesterday: family photos in NYC from a half-century before … More

blackness, gay marriage, gay men, interracial, LGBTQIA, Love, race

Remembering My Aunt Hattie

Sometime after her sister, my mother, died and before her Alzheimer’s developed to the point she didn’t recognize or know … More

alzheimer's, family, Love

Books Published, People Cherished

I am a judge for the Independent Book Publishers Association’s Benjamin Franklin Awards. Perhaps surprisingly, this work predates my years … More

Benjamin Franklin Awards, IBPA, Independent Book Publishers Association, publishing, work

Sunday with My Son

These weekend wintry early mornings in which at times I’m feeling a little drawn—hardly inclined to roll out of bed, … More

autism, fatherhood, forest, neurodiversity, parenting, pisgah forest, pisgah national forest, waterfall, woods

Backward, Forward, One, Two, Three

One One of the best experiences of my life was four decades ago at summer camp, Camp Killooleet, in Hancock, … More

50, acceptance, autism, autism acceptance, bullying, midlife, neurodiversity

Stretched Presidencies

I define a stretched presidency as lasting a minimum of eight years and including a presidency of the person elected … More

Democratic Opposition, Elections, Parties and the Presidency, Presidency, President, President Trump, Presidential Elections, Presidential tenures, Presidential terms, Presidents, Stretched Presidencies

The Four Chambers: Love, Life, Lust, and Loss, for Autistics Just Like Everyone Else

I’ve been thinking a lot about joy lately, and especially about how the same experience or circumstance or day or … More

ASD, autism, falling in love, friendship, joy, life, loss, Love, lust, romantic love, the four chambers

Come Fly with Me: Angels Cheer

I am 47 years old. I turn 48 late this month. I haven’t been someone who has ever given too … More

aging, birthday, birthdays, Byron Katie, community, family, happiness, happy birthday, Love, middle age, perception, reinvention, relationship, relationships

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The @ashevilletourists sponsor the Tourists Therapeutic Recreation Baseball League each year through Asheville Parks & Recreation. My son Nicholas, now 22, has participated since 2008. Today all the teams of adults *and* children gathered at McCormick Field and played the season’s final game with the support of Tourists players. (The Tourists are a High-A affiliate of the Houston Astros.) It was a beautiful day in every way, and immense gratitude to the Tourists and their GM, Larry Hawkins, for two decades of community support, outreach, and inclusion.
Silly-face pic to highlight a more serious messaging from my son Nicholas, who is autistic and intellectually disabled, in his shirt from The Arc of the United States @thearc_us : “Disability rights are human rights.”
@dobrateanc in downtown Asheville NC for a couple of hours today with my friend (and long-ago neighbor) Kimmy Hunter, with far-ranging conversation largely rooted in a robust, broad, and true vision for love and inclusion—for *everyone* and everywhere, in family, schools, workplaces, community, and society—as the foundation of the work we do and the lives we live. #love #inclusion #acceptance #vision #society #family #schools #community #change
Liz Flowers is a member of my son Nicholas’ community circle, which we call Team Nicholas. Today Ms Liz took Nicholas out and about in Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina today, including here in front of Looking Glass Falls.
Satsuki Azalea busting out @thencarboretum
Lunch at @buxtonhallbbq on Memorial Day weekend with my son Nicholas: pulled pork, catfish, chocolate torte, banana pudding pie.
I hadn’t seen my former Lark Books colleague Dana Irwin in at least a decade, so I was excited to drive up to an art show and fundraiser in Weaverville, NC where I’d read she was showing work. Dana was an Art Director (for 23 years!) at Lark Books during years I was a Senior Editor (for 3 of my 6 Lark years)—it was immense creative fun working with her then! As you see, she is looking fantastic and, a longtime painter with watercolors, newly working with acrylic paints and exploring the impact on her artistic style. She’d already sold two of the four pieces she was showing before I arrived!
Vignettes from therapeutic-recreation baseball from Asheville Parks & Rec on Saturday, supported by the TC Roberson High School baseball team that next weekend is playing in the state (NC) baseball championship finals.
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