Musings and What-not

The Personal Experience of Letting Go It seems rather funny that a woman who has believed in being in control and taking control of her life most of her life now writes about letting go. Because of such, however, I can write with passion about the power of taking your hands off of life's course finger by finger.

How many times have you bid something, or someone, " BYE BYE BYE " ? How many times were you overcome by troubling thoughts?

Folks who know me pretty well know that I've been "searching" for ways to be "at peace" with my yesterdays of many days gone by as well as "searching" for ways that will alleviate my "need-to-know-what-is-yet-to-come" ... right now. I cannot tell you how many books or CDs or podcasts or web bookmarks I have that offer up the information I seek. I also cannot tell you why I have been unable to connect with this information that is so readily available to me.

Folks who know me pretty well know that I've been "searching" for ways to be "at peace" with my yesterdays of days gone by as well as "searching" for ways that will alleviate my "need-to-know-what-is-yet-to-come" ... right now.

I first learned of Jenny McCarthy's story when she and Evan were featured in People .  After I had finished reading it, I wasn't really sure how I was supposed to feel. Then I remembered a conversation I had with my friend (and my son's godmother).  She talked about her trials as a mom of a child who had PPD-NOS (Pervasive Developmental Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified).  For those of you who don't know what PPD-NOS is it's a catch-all diagnosis for people on The Spectrum that have many but not all of the typical autism signs and symptoms. We spoke of our frustration of how the media only listens when a celebrity has something to say about an issue like autism. Why was it that the "regular, everyday moms" weren't being interviewed by the masses? Why didn't the media answer our letters of outrage? With nothing to sell, why didn't someone want to listen to us ? I was angry with Jenny, but that anger was misplaced. I should have been angry at t...