Full Spectrum Mama

Pardner is a chef and recently texted me during dinner service about a nice family that was at the restaurant. He said he’d been observing...

From time to time, Full Spectrum Mama feels inclined to posit the existence of heretofore undiscovered mechanisms of being, such as the Extr...

*** Trigger warnings: dark humor, sad and hard stuff, all mixed together *** Dear Readers, Thank you for having me, Partial/inco...

Last year’s “Choosing your Battles” post presents ideas around how to navigate complicated situations (a.k.a. “life”) wherein we have to ch...

I posted my first second-anniversary list, on Advocacy, about two weeks ago. Immediately following that post, I had a startlingly depressi...

Because FSM has gotten a teeeensy bit behind in her List Writing, there’s still time to submit your COMPLAINTS of any stripe. They can be f...

This time last year, we had just fought a grueling but successful battle to retain G’s IEP. He’d erroneously been tested for reading and ma...