Stories By Kimberlee Rutan McCafferty
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Brick Life
/ 8 years agoWhatever We Can
I hold you as you sob, my arms wrapped tightly around your torso, as behind me your father holds your hands...
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Brick Life
/ 8 years agoFind Your Calm
A few weeks ago I wrote about my week in paradise (again, don’t hate me, had not been away for three...
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Brick Life
/ 8 years agoWhere He Is
We sway in slight staccato, my boy’s arms wrapped tightly around my waist, his left cheek flush with my right. We...
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Brick Life
/ 8 years agoMake New Friends
This past weekend I had the great fortune to have dinner with a couple of my “autism mommy friends,” an evening...
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Brick Life
/ 8 years agoRewind
The laugh roars up from his belly, a hearty chuckle we haven’t heard in weeks. My son is sitting on my...
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Brick Life
/ 8 years agoJust Be
I just returned from a week in paradise. Please don’t hate me. Last week my husband and I spent a week...
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Brick Life
/ 8 years agoGet Out
Recently I spent twenty-four glorious hours in DC, my former stomping grounds of fifteen years. I ate Indian food, and spent...
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Brick Life
/ 9 years agoSpinning
My head is spinning. I’d like to tell you it’s for a fun reason, like when I used to be able...
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Brick by the Numbers
/ 9 years agoGrowing Up
This weekend a momentous event occurred, not one with trumpets and flashing lights, but momentous all the same. The truth is,...
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Brick Life
/ 9 years agoBirthday Boy
ay This week my boy turns thirteen. He will be ushered into his teenaged years, that period which is supposed to...