Tag Archives: family
Of special powers, ADHD, dyslexia and autism
Imagine your kid has special powers. She can read minds, has penetrating vision, superhuman hearing. She can go a million miles a minute. That’s my daughter, Kai: hyperactive, dyslexic, autistic. I was ironing her latest Fuse Bead creations tonight — a purple-legged octopus, an orange-and-yellow-tipped star, intricately patterned hearts, a tiny dog with the appropriate [...]
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Somebody walking over my grave?
My sister, Teresa Krizman, saw this tombstone while visiting Crested Butte, Colo. Chills down the spine. Literally. BTW, for a Yahoo community discussion about the expression “BLANK walked across my grave,” go here. Tweet
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Family teepee project: Too many chiefs; not enough Indians
I love my family, for all its weirdness. My aunt plans to live in a teepee in the badlands on the Colorado-Utah border, so of course the family got together to build it. We didn’t know what we were doing, but we had an instruction book and lots of opinions. The canvas fit the tangle [...]
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How I suffered an actual storytelling injury