March 2011 - The Joy of Autism - The Network of Care

Telling The Truth

Toronto weather is undecided. Yesterday the city was teased by sunshine and the smell of defrosting earth. When I awoke this morning, a film of white covered by backyard. It was like that ( I was away) last week. March 22nd was delightful, I was told...

Published Thu, Mar 31 2011 7:26 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Writing

Wanted: Bibliohome

I want a proper home for my books. I collect a lot of books and I’m already wondering how to place them. I fight against my need for clean space and then cluttering it up again with more. I want this: It’s in Costa Rica. Ah well, I’ll...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2011 3:13 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Estee

Travelling

I went to Bequia for March Break. It was my turn to take a vacation as Adam’s dad had him over the holiday. The island is in St. Vincent in the Grenadines and is really remote. I enjoyed every second of it. As a single mom, I have a life with Adam...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2011 9:45 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Travel, Transitions, Parenting

Wretches and Jabberers Coming to Toronto April 9

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Published Thu, Mar 24 2011 12:22 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Activism, Acceptance, Inspiration

the fukushima 50

I woke to Peter Armstrong from CBC News reporting on the radiation surge at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. What a disaster of proportions only imagined by me, as I watch images of towns completely destroyed by water. On the television...

Published Wed, Mar 16 2011 7:19 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Inspiration

early spring 2011

With a glimpse of early March sun, I got an itch. I can’t stop myself from setting the date to open the pool, to think about the gardening I want to do this year, and to imagine where Adam and I will be a few years from now. I am imagining his,...

Published Tue, Mar 15 2011 12:57 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Estee, Acceptance

For The Love of Letters, Lists and Other Things

I love letters. I’ve loved typeface since I was a child, remembering picking up my mother’s collection of old brown volumes of Encyclopedia Brittanica. I admired the letters, words and sentences before I could read them. Around the age of...

Published Thu, Mar 10 2011 6:51 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Autism and Learning, Development, Art, Autism and Intelligence, Obsessions, autism

The Inferno

I haven’t written because I’m having nightmares. Last Sunday, the house I built with Adam’s dad (it took us from start to finish maybe three years and a bit) went ablaze. It’s completely ruined. The outer structure looks fine but...

Published Fri, Mar 04 2011 12:49 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Safety

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