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“Too Good?”

We have a bedtime routine, which Emma because she loves routines, helps us implement. “Okay Em, time to brush teeth!”  One of us will tell her. “Mommy come,” Emma often replies. “I’m right behind you,...

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What Makes You Happy?

Happiness is…. My husband Our son Em Our fabulous kitty This… and this… the ranch… 7:00 AM in New York City And this… this one’s for you, Brenda and this… Angie, love and kisses… (Em took this and it’s...

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Anger, Confusion, Doing the Right Thing

My father was born and raised in Paris.  He was actually Swiss, hence my last name, but he grew up in France and only came to the States in his twenties.  As a child I remember feeling ever so slightly...

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Rethinking Unhappiness

I was alerted to an article written by Dr. Michael Oberschneider entitled, Ask Dr. Mike: Expecting and Anxious About Autism.  In the piece he writes, “Some of the happiest parents I know (both...

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A Word Of Thanks

A friend of mine hasn’t been feeling well.  She had a cold or maybe it was the flu.  When she wrote me I could tell by the uncharacteristic abundance of typos that she wasn’t feeling great.  I thought...

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A Few Thoughts…

I haven’t written anything on this blog for an entire week, the longest I have gone without posting something since I began blogging over three years ago.  A combination of things kept me from my...

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Social Expectations

Yesterday there was some discussion about accepting and rejecting social rules.  Asked to talk about the rules she would reject, Emma wrote four that she would prefer were not required and expected of...

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Time To Dance

Hearing music alleviates anxiety and welcomes dappled drops clasping gleeful feelings, radiating inward and outward simultaneously.  Like bursts of intense flavor, music explodes in the body.  Only a...

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Poetry is Ballet in Words

Poetry is ballet in words. Graceful, agile words, yawning and leaping while whispering and shouting all at once. The ending is the beginning like water colors I had no access to any of it no way to...

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