Divorce is a life changing event. It’s also an opportunity: to learn more about yourself and grow into the person you were meant to be. My divorce and my post-divorce situation have been one of the most difficult trials I’ve had to go through. But I like to feel that I’ve taken the pieces of Read More
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What Happens When A Writer’s Son Can’t Read?
As they pulled my son from the fresh slice in my abdomen, he had a bluish tinge. He was not crying. Up to that point, I hadn’t spoken his name aloud: it was a secret that only he and I knew. “Why isn’t Puck crying?” I croaked, touching the nurse’s hand to get her attention Read More
Taking a Right at Albuquerque
My life now seems to go in a continuous cycle. Not in a bad way, like a merry-go-round that never stops. It’s now like I’m on a road with two paths in front of me and a map of where I’ve been. I keep looking at the map for clues to where I should be Read More
Learning Disabilities: Making Report Card Day Positive
Living with a learning disability means that report card day has been very difficult in the past. I think my son dreaded the report card almost as much as I did. Because the school insists that you go over the report card with your child. Which I totally understand. But when most of the feedback Read More
Learning to Succeed: A Mother’s Gift to her Children
It’s so hard these days to decide which type of parent you want to be. I want to supportive of my children. Yet I want to give them the room they need to figure out who they are and grow. Puck is a very cautious child. Part and parcel of his learning disability is an Read More
When Should you Teach your Children to be Independent?
I face a continual struggle with my children’s birth father with regard to parenting techniques. I work very hard to foster their spirit and independence and self-confidence. My ex doesn’t understand because that isn’t the way he was raised. He works hard to ensure the children are dependent on him, in part, I think, because Read More