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Life after loss with autism, preemies and a rainbow baby

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Stop Saying It

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Today is the official day of the End the R word campaign. There is a story I could share about how this word was directed towards someone I love dearly. But I won’t. I heard what was muttered and the person it was directed towards did not. Putting it in print will not help either […]

Earning Your Stripes

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I remember the day I found out she was not sitting on The Story Mat. Inhaling deeply and channeling patience, concentrating on not pounding the floor as I marched to confront an inflexible kindergarten teacher. The “classroom rule” stated that you could only sit on The Story Mat “if you were able to put on […]

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