My Son Deserves Life
This morning, while browsing LinkedIn, I came across a post by Emily Ladau, one of my “shero’s” Emily is a disability advocate, author of “Demystifying Disability,” and a wheelchair user. […]
Raising an Adult Son with Profound Autism
This morning, while browsing LinkedIn, I came across a post by Emily Ladau, one of my “shero’s” Emily is a disability advocate, author of “Demystifying Disability,” and a wheelchair user. […]
The hits keep coming. And I’m quite sad. This may seem like something small to some people reading this post. But to me, it’s big. And it’s important. I love […]
April 2nd came and went this year with no great fanfare from me. Not this year. This year I just couldn’t put on a blue shirt and beg my family […]
I just finished putting together my One-Second-a-Day video for this crazy year. And by year, I’m stretching it from the first day of 2020 to March 11, 2021, exactly one […]
Dear Braden, It’s been one week since you made your big move out of our house and into your new home. Your new home. I still can hardly believe I’m […]
Now I’m sitting in my living room surrounded by boxes full of everything that usually belongs in our kitchen cupboards and drawers. Our bedroom closet is full of bathroom supplies. […]
Now: Our family experienced a loss this week. Grieving is hard at the best of times. But these are definitely not the best of times. Then: When Braden was young […]
In two days it will be September…and we’re still in America. I wrote a blog post last May entitled “Into the Great Wide Open” when Mike, Braden, and I left […]
Life…it’s changing. We came to a decision recently. We are flying home to Oregon on Thursday evening. Just to clarify, we are not going home because we are scared of […]
“How are things going with Braden during all this, Lori?” Hmmm….. Life during #COVID with Braden…how would I describe it? I’m going to go with “Predictably Unpredictable.” We have now […]