Today is a good time for me to re-share this picture of my Mum from a little over 20 years ago, shortly before she turned 50. Mum should’ve been 70 today, but instead her life was cut far too short due to pancreatic cancer, which she was diagnosed with not long after her 50th birthday. … More Tears Stream Down My Face on My Mother’s 70th Birthday
Sixteen years ago, I left Australia, the only home I knew, and moved to Malaysia. Ten and a third years ago, I left Malaysia and moved to California. Four years ago, as the US election results rolled in and started looking dire, I began contemplating moving back to Australia. I looked up real estate prices … More Stay and Fight as an American, or Retreat as I’m Still Australian?
April is known as Autism Acceptance Month for many autistic people around the world, myself included. It’s about reclaiming the month to speak up for ourselves so we can be accepted for who we are, rather than how the month started as an Awareness month by an organisation that thought we needed to be “cured” … More Pokémon is My Current Autistic Special Interest
Apart from visiting many members of my extended family in late 2007, to introduce them to my husband and new son (then not-quite-one), I hadn’t really made much effort to connect with them in person (unless I happened to be in Washington DC/Virginia, which wasn’t too far from family I have in Virginia). It wasn’t … More Three Weeks on the Road, Following My Mum’s Legacy
My latest book, Marked by Scorn: An Anthology Featuring Non-Traditional Relationships is officially released this Sunday on July 31st. The ebook is available for pre-order from Amazon. I had a conversation with my husband last month about how people are probably assuming that as the editor of a collection like this, I must be polyamorous1. … More Coming Out with Marked by Scorn: An Anthology Featuring Non-Traditional Relationships
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I’m in the midst of the most tumultuous time of year for me. March 4th (my mum’s birthday) to May 3rd (the anniversary of her death) sees me reacting to things with a lot more sensitivity than the rest of the year. I mention this because it’s going to affect what I have to say. … More Thoughts on Motherhood
It’s been more than seven and a half years since my mum passed away from pancreatic cancer. They say it gets easier as time goes on, whoever “they” are. I’m not sure how true that is. Certainly the pain of not having her in my life any more often comes to the forefront of my … More Another Christmas Without My Mum
This is probably going to be the hardest public blog post I’ll ever write in my life. When fear consumes you and prevents you from being true to yourself – from telling the people who matter the most to you who you really are, because you’re afraid of how they’ll react – then you’re no … More Tired of Hiding
We arrived in Nottingham in the late afternoon of December 21st to spend Christmas with Jeremy’s family. Jeremy’s brother, Matt, moved to Nottingham with his family a couple of years ago to study a PhD in Theology, and his sister, Annie, and her family decided to trek over for a year at the beginning of … More Christmas Vacation 2009-10, part 2 – Nottingham, Cardiff, Oxford, London, and Munich
