My son and I went to a free Sound Healing session at the local library. Meditative practices are generally not our thing, but we both need all the help we can get to settle our minds these days. Plus, it’s a grey midwestern Saturday in February. Needless to say, the...
The Blueberry I vividly recall the moment I realized my son had an eating disorder, except I wouldn’t have called it an eating disorder then, let alone known what to name it. He was 3 years old; it was the early 2000s, and ARFID as a formal diagnosis didn’t exist...
I’ve been thinking about starting a blog for a while now but wasn’t sure where to begin. Sharing the recent release of my picture book on autism and neurodiversity seemed like as good a place as any. It reflects a lot of my personal and professional journey.
This book, All Kinds of Brains, has been a long time in the making. Back in the early 2000s, when our family was learning about our son’s neurodivergence* and his eventual autism diagnosis, there were very few helpful children’s books on the topic.