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Poem: Favorite Person

Favorite Person The excitement of hello vibrates and shines not with the promise of what’s to come but just for…

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Wayne Dyer

Living on a Rampage of Appreciation—An Interview with Wayne Dyer

A best-selling author for decades, Wayne Dyer was one of the most popular teachers in the self-help, mind/body/spirit, and New Age…

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Ray and Nicholas Hemachandra sitting by the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina (photo by Kristi Pfeiffer)

Poem: To have and to hold until death has no part

To have and to hold until death has no part He had a secret. He grabbed you and pulled you…

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Nicholas Hemachandra looking out at Raven Cliff Falls in South Carolina, May 2020

No “Because” but Love—Intellectual Disability, Identity, Representation, and Value

Autism and disability pride movements assert unique cultures and identities. Can intellectually disabled people be more openly and equitably represented…

autism, autism acceptance, autism adulthood, IDD, intellectual disability

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…

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…

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…

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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,…

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

Hammer and Screw: Autism Acceptance and Rejection

I opened my talk at the 2019 HANd Autism & Neurodiversity Conference, themed as “My Autism Journey—Various Perspectives,” in this way,…

autism, autism acceptance, inclusion, neurodiversity
Nicholas Hemachandra, young and old

“Poppa, Do You Have Autism?”

I told this story in my keynote address at the HANd Autism & Neurodiversity Conference in fall 2019 at Appalachian…

autism, autism acceptance, autism parenting, neurodiversity

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Mushrooms ‘round back outside of Centreville Luncheonette in Weaverville NC
Little forest stroll on Sunday
All the fungus, all the feels
When the light hits just right—in Pisgah National Forest today.
Profile of my son Nicholas, 21 and turning 22 next month, a joy the whole way through, in north Asheville NC today
It looked to me like a French impressionist painting … or a jigsaw puzzle.
Gardening season
The Macon Reed @macon_reed_studio installation “Hello Death, Where Have You Been All My Life?” opened this weekend and runs through Sept. 16 at the Center for Craft @centerforcraft at 67 Broadway in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. Macon Reed is a New Orleans-based artist, and NOLA cultural inflections about death and dying and our rituals around them color—literally and figuratively—the evocative, fabulous show. If you live in western North Carolina or are visiting, don’t miss it.
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