Note: I regularly ghost-write for my clients…here’s one of my favorite articles I wanted to share with you. Did you know that adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at least three times more likely to be verbally and physically bullied? Some experts believe that the primary characteristics of ASD, such as communication difficulties and [...]
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I admit it: I am only a sporadic journal writer. I can go for months without writing in my journal and then one of several things happens (see below) and I’m back on the journaling train once again until the momentum wears off. It’s quite revealing why I start journaling after an absent period: emotional [...]
Transforming Abuse: Nonviolent Resistance and Recovery by K. Louise Schmidt uses a synthesis of feminist theory and nonviolent practice as the springboard for understanding violence toward women and children, our place in the system, which perpetuates the violence, and suggestions for societal change through personal action. Schmidt offers us a vision of a non-enemy ethic [...]
(Here is a letter I wrote as part of a self-discovery exercise for a class I was taking in 2001.) Dear Soul Mate, It feels strange to write to someone I’ve never met before. Of course, maybe we have met and I didn’t realize who you were. Either way, we aren’t together right now in [...]
(Here’s a little poem I wrote in 1996 whilst carrying on a wonderful long distance relationship via email. Back in the days of America Online and dial-up modems!) Send. Goodbye. Thousands of thoughts, feelings condensed into seconds of electronic blips. Welcome. You’ve Got Mail! Millions of miles away, you read my words, you enter my [...]
“Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. If you cling to it so much, when the truth comes in person and knocks at your door, you will not open it.” —Thich Nhat Hanh “The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the [...]