Spoonful of Comfort Blog

It is a privilege for me to be able to write about aging in America because many people did not make it to be my age, including my husband. It took me to get to be this age to decide that if I don’t write about aging now, when will I? We don’t know how […]

I wanted to write about aging in America because that is what I am doing. This time in History is one of the best times to be aging in America.  In June, I will be 78 years old and don’t feel that I am finished yet. We have great doctors, great preventive medicine and great

I contend that we are not hearing enough words of wisdom in society today. We seem to hear more of the wrong words than the right words. I am trying to do my bit to share some of the wisdom that is already out there. I hope you are, too. For God has not given

We do have to keep hope alive, but it seems that our country is becoming more and more divided. I don’t know about you, but I am not hearing enough words of wisdom to balance out all the other words that I hear.  So, I am sharing more. I hope you have some of your

I am surprised that at age 77, I am still thinking about the future. I am not alone. We seniors have redefined aging. But, I do realize that my lights could go out at any time, so I am still busy trying to be a productive “senior citizen”.  I was “over the hill”, but I

It was in 1972 that Pervis and I decided to have another baby. The Spinners had their first gold record and the future looked bright and shiny. Pervis Jr (PJ) was born in 1975 and the family was overjoyed at our new addition. It was  months after his first birthday when the doctor told me

When your child is diagnosed with autism, it is a crushing blow (sometimes the crushing blow comes from your child). Living with a child handicapped by autism is exhausting and stressful. We are under a lot of stress in the home. Then we are under a lot of pressure from professionals (and ourselves)  to try

If you are the parent of a child with autism (or any other disability) you are in my thoughts and prayers. We have so much stress and pressure in trying to raise our children. I don’t know what you are going through, but I know you are going through something. We have the same problems that

I have been abused by autism, defeated by autism, depressed by autism, embarrassed by autism, exhausted by autism, overwhelmed by autism. I never thought I would get to the point where I would say that I am inspired by autism.  It only took 30 years. “Inspired By Autism” is the title of my book in

April is National Autism Month, so today’s entry is about the other Pervis Jackson, our son Pervis Jr (PJ) who is handicapped by autism. PJ was born in 1975 when cases of autism were extremely rare. The statistics then were one child in every 10,000 was diagnosed with autism. I had never heard of the