Large Animal Crossing Etcetera is a site of children's stories, memoirs, illustrations, poetry, vignettes, & photography involving memories honoring one life.
Killian is a clinical psychologist with Asberger’s Syndrome, a very high level of autism. So high it is today no longer listed as a form of autism in the medical reference books. He also, without request, becomes the primary caregiver for two years for one of his friends. Me. I am deeply flawed yet doing […]
continue reading Once Upon A PrinceAt twelve years of age, during the Roaring Twenties in Chicago, our Papa holds his mother as she lay dying of breast cancer. He is of Irish descent, birthed in British Columbia, and raised in Chicago. He’s been sent away while she slowly dies, yet he cannot eat and the doctors recommend he be returned […]
continue reading PapaThere are multiple crashes in the night and odd sounds of rustling. Interestingly, my animal pets are not concerned. It is as though whoever or whatever it is, is their friend. You see I live in a charmingly patched-together collection of very old structures on a lovely clear lake. At one point I rise in […]
continue reading An Odd Angel In the KitchenYour story may show up in your stride. Or your eyes may reveal past trauma and/or joy. Sometimes it is even in one’s vocal tones. We are rural North Central Florida and we stand together in a tiny village ~ A long-held group of sorority Sisters from mixed backgrounds, who have each others’ backs ~we love and […]
continue reading A Story in Every Heart