My mother does not want to come for Thanksgiving. She does not want to use the transportation service to travel to town for the holiday.My mother lives about 35 miles from me and a service is required to get her wheelchair in the vehicle. I don't...

A couple of months ago I read an article about a website called Kickstarter. Kickstarter is a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists and just about any other creative entity.Basically it's a way for starving...

Less than 48 hours to go! Is anyone else as excited as I am to have the new school year start?I will soon be able to blog on a much more regular basis. In anticipation of that I wanted to post a few reminders.If you aren't already following me on...

There is a woman I see everyday when I walk my daughter up to meet her walking line/crossing guards for school. She has five children the oldest of which has downs. This woman and I have said hello to each other but rarely have time to chat since she...

I had a really nice visit with my mother on Easter. A very nice visit. In fact I kept thinking to myself "it looks like mom, sounds like mom, but this is not my mother". Not that our visits have been bad. For the last six months or so they have been...