Jessica Slice writes about disability, poems, and waterfowl

A big and grateful welcome to my new subscribers. I am so glad that you are here. I’d love to know a little bit about you if you want to message me on my website or comment on this post. It’s been a busy couple of months with podcast recordings, guest posts, and panel…
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The mergansers are back. And the golden eyes and the mallards. The swans visited a few weeks ago but the ice hadn’t melted yet, so they left. A bald eagle flew over our house. A cardinal has been hopping around the front yard and, near the apple tree, the first crocus leaves are…
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Around 6:30 each morning, he opens the sliding door and screams into the backyard. Come to the yard, birds! It’s safe here. Please hurry! Whatever you’re picturing when I say that Khalil likes birds right now is inadequate. Try to imagine a lifelong bird-watching enthusiast and…
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On Valentine’s Day, Khalil and I watched a couple of short films on Disney+. In Out, a gay man debates telling his parents about the man he loves. In Bao, a woman copes with her grown son moving out by parenting a dumpling. He was curled into me — my little spoon —the computer…
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Covid isn’t the only thing that has happened to me (to us) over the last two years. Life has continued to have hard and beautiful moments. Work and…
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A text from David in late October: Bad news. Some of the rain is coming in the basement. It had been pouring and the wind was bending the trees…
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It’s so easy to think the way we’ve always thought. Patterns, trauma, and exhaustion can stagnate us. My favorite books this year are the ones that…
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Thank you, to all who have signed up for the newsletter after reading Modern Love. Welcome. I am so grateful that you are here. And to those who have…
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We have a book coming out!! Just over a year ago, Caroline Cupp, a fellow disabled mama, messaged me and asked if I had any advice for where to find a…
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On Khalil’s seventh day of school, I bought my coffee outside and sat on the blue woven chair. The chair first sat on our deck in California and then on…
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One year ago, we were in a short-term rental and had just finished a 14-day quarantine after crossing the border into Canada. On our second night in…
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Now that Khalil is in a bed instead of a crib, I can lie down with him at bedtime. He picks a nightlight color and then David leaves us to our songs and…
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Jessica Slice writes about disability, poems, and waterfowl

a monthly essay on disability, poetry, and waterfowl
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