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autism, Family, Friends, Grief, kindness, Life, Loss, Mental Health, parenthood, Photography, Photos, Poetry, Writing

With my Goodbye, Mom, Your Walls will Fall Down

Corrie's Mom

This is the second in a six part blog series about goodbye. In times of tragedy, friends and family say more with goodbye than we could ever imagine. With her final goodbye, Corrie busted up my walls I'd built around me over a period of six years. Corrie was a more social creature than I… Continue reading With my Goodbye, Mom, Your Walls will Fall Down

Advocacy, History, Life, marriage, Mental Health, PTSD, Writing

Daisies on the Fields of France, a poem

Corrie's Mom

Daisies on the Fields of France   By Rebecca T. Dickinson   I stand at the kitchen door with light lemon hair curling at my shoulders. Untucked, gray shirt   as eyes stare at another plain in my mind that no soul-stained teacher wants to see or hear again. Meet me in the here and… Continue reading Daisies on the Fields of France, a poem

Advocacy, Blogging, Writing

Why Over When

Corrie's Mom

This is the first of a two part series on my memoir-focused blog, An Apple Between the Trees. It focuses on why over when. Change the "When will she leave journalism?" to "Why did she leave?" Sometimes we're too scared to ask why. via Why Over When