The hole in my heart

This weekend, my autistic daughter has gone away for the first time.  She is not being tucked up by me or her father or her step-father.  Not one of us is making sure she has her snacks, or her non-gluten meals.  Not one of us is reading her favourite story, or sticking stickers with her….
I [...]

The Day I Lost My Daughter

Actually, I didn’t lose her- but it felt like I did.
How?
For the first time in many, many years, she was away from home. Not just for the day, but for the night, five nights in all. What to do with myself? In the morning, I padded by her bedroon quietly, so as not to wake [...]