Miss Tavistock’s Mistake is a light book to read but at times that is just the kind of book you need. My feelings for Miss Tavistock went back and forth through the book. At times I felt she was naive. At times she seemed to have some wisdom. She was a bit stubborn in parts of the book. She does mature through the book and wonders if her mistake can be undone. I had some of the same feelings for…
Plans and secrets. We all have some of that in our lives. What if the secrets were so deep? What if the plans required that the secret be revealed. That is what is happening in Linda’s life. She has held the secret for years. Now things have changed and she finds that because of the change of plans she might need to reveal the secret. I could relate to Linda. I have plans and my plans have not always gone…
“Are you disabled?” That was a question that I recently asked my daughter. It was prompted by the question on a form I was completing for her. “Does your child consider themselves disabled?” I decided to just ask Miss K the question, “Are you disabled?” She looked at me and rolled her eyes as only a teenager can do and then said, “No” with the tone of “why in the world are you asking me that question, that is the…
Reading is what I do when I am tired and need to sit. I am in the middle of chemo and so that means I am tired and have lots of time to read. So don’t try to compare what I read to what you did or did not do in September. I wish I was not sitting as much but that is life at this time. September’s Reading I am not going to share every book I have read…
Don’t pity me because I am a Special Needs Mom. I recently read an illustration in a Christian book on suffering that left me feeling as if the woman in the illustration was feeling pity for the special needs parents. This woman spoke about seeing a child with Down Syndrome fall. The woman felt sorrow that she would never reach her human potential and do amazing things. Don’t pity me. Ask me how I have seen God work in my…