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Moving In To The Village
In August 1996, then First Lady Hillary Clinton addressed the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It was the now famous, “It Takes a Village” speech. In it, she details how, while parents are a child’s first and primary teachers and role models, it takes everyone in the community to raise a healthy, happy child. I…
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Ekphrasis – Free Writing Based on an Image NBPHM / NaBloPoMo Day 22
Photo by ashleydoar I’ve seen this installation at the Art Institute of Chicago. It’s meant to represent the artist’s partner who died of AIDS; 175 pounds of candy, representing the partner’s body weight when he was healthy. Visitors are encouraged to take a piece of candy, representing how the disease ate away at him, and…
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Deja Vu All Over Again
…My son Tim, who has a diagnosis of Schizoaffective Disorder, turns 18 in eight months, and he will age out of his current RTC placement. He won’t be graduating high school (read here about the Super Senior program), but we will have to decide whether he should come home or we should find another residential…
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It’s Monday Again – NABPM / NaBloPoMo Day 14
So…another week begins. We spent time Thursday and Friday last week talking as a family about what’s going on with The Girl* and talking to her about what an evaluation is. We’d had a cocktail party scheduled for Saturday night for weeks and, while debating if we should cancel, we all decided not to. She…