Shapes and Labels
I’m an educator and musician. I know from my experience that seeing shapes and noticing patterns is how children – and grown-ups – make sense of the world, and an important part of seeing and noticing...
View ArticleWhat Happened Next…
It has been a month since I wrote the first post in this blog – and in that time I’ve struggled to find a way to connect my thoughts with concrete sentences, so overwhelmed by appointments, anxiety,...
View ArticleThe Experts
I’m beginning to sort them out, these experts newly arrived in my life. First off, I simply don’t have time to acquire the expertise I need right now, so I need the experts; but since I don’t have the...
View ArticleDiagnosis Denial
Back in the second week of March I wrote this entry, but never did post it to the blog. I know that part of the reason was that in writing this out I think I finally abandoned the denial I was...
View ArticleYou Should Be Writing This Down
The third of four school terms began here in my part of the world in the middle of July, and it began with rather more of an event than I’d anticipated. The school counsellor sent me an email the day...
View ArticleWhat Happened Next
In real life we’re now in the second week of the holidays preceding Term 4, while my story here in this blog is still stuck at lunchtime on the first day of Term 3. Let’s try to catch up a little…....
View ArticleI’ll Never Be Who I Was When You Met Me
This blog began in a blur of emergency, advocacy and exhaustion. I felt the need to document my struggle, both internal and in regard to finding a place for my son in the world and our community. I...
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