The Tales.

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Shout Out to the Soccer Moms

By Adrian Wood / July 27, 2021

Not the ones who look the picture of spring, but the ones freezing their asses off on metal bleachers in negative 20 wind chill. Not the ones who arrive with…

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Amos Pageant Preparation

By Adrian Wood / June 24, 2021

My name is Amos. I am to be in the Christmas Pageant tomorrow. I am a sheep. At least, that’s what they tell me. I am not a big fan…

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Changing of A Boy

By Adrian Wood / June 24, 2021

He’s changing, not quite every day I notice something different. He’s changing, today he showered and dressed nicely and I found him splayed on his bed doing his homework for…

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He Calls Me Mama

By Adrian Wood / June 24, 2021

Mama It’s his best word. He has been saying it since he was ten months old, back when he was just a baby. My baby always but a baby baby…

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The Girl Who Spoke of Castro

By Adrian Wood / June 24, 2021

I was a student at Meredith College, perhaps a sophomore, and my sociology professor introduced us to a fellow student, a girl that spoke the whole of a class about…

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Elephant in the Room

By Adrian Wood / June 24, 2021

Elephant in the Room: December, 2015 A year ago I took a leap and began sharing my heart. This was my first story. ….Satire meets truth, faith meets irony, despair…

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Thomas On Autism

By Adrian Wood / June 24, 2021

I think he knows something we don’t. Ahhh, how I love a statement like this. My oldest reflecting on my youngest, biggest brother to smallest brother, typically developing boy to…

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My Birthday Boy

By Adrian Wood / June 24, 2021

Eleven years ago, two long days of labor just one day shy of five weeks early, produced a 5 pound one ounce son named Thomas. Eleven years ago, I became…

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Exclusion

By Adrian Wood / June 24, 2021

I think what is hardest about true exclusion is that there is nothing or no one to blame but yourself. To be excluded in a non-objective way by a group…

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Stairsteps

By Adrian Wood / June 24, 2021

My favorite part of today? It wasn’t the awards. It wasn’t the end of school excitement. It wasn’t even the knowing that no more lunches would have to be packed…

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