A few Fourth of July notes from today’s road trip to Mount Laurel, New Jersey, from our home in Arden,…
Autism and the Human Condition: Ourselves and the Other, Ourselves as the Other, Ourselves and No Other
I’ve been participating in a group and a class recently that both sometimes have autistic adults present; engaging a lot…
Try This With a Banana: My Goodbye — in 2006
If it seems like I’ve stopped posting here — it’s been long enough that the WordPress default font for writing…
A new video … and thoughts about online identity and legacy
A new promotional video for Family Support Network of Western North Carolina and Mission Children’s Hospital featuring my friend Roxann…
April Is Autism Awareness Month: A Time for Developing Acceptance (an article for the Biltmore Beacon)
Mission Children’s Hospital and Mission Health have a regular column in The Biltmore Beacon, a weekly publication in the South…
Autism Nation: Implications for a 1-in-68 Planet
Let’s begin here: Whether April is Autism Awareness Month or Autism Acceptance Month, I think the place where autism awareness…
Leathe Hemachandra: Poems from My Grandmother
Here’s what I think I know: My grandmother Leathe Hemachandra was born Leathe Wade Colvert in New York City on…
Poem: Why Cats Stay in Abusive Relationships
Look up “poetry” in the dictionary, and the second definition is “the quickest way to lose blog traffic.” Similarly, Google…
Mountain Xpress article about Family Support Network
Hi everyone! New real blog post coming later this week, but I wanted to link to an article about Family…
Poem: Boulevard Park, Bellingham
I wrote this poem in 1996. Around that time I was writing a lot of poetry and doing some readings…