This one is actually sent to me by an autie who gave me permission to blog it (and keep him anon). And although he suggests kangaroo mince, keep in mind that in Australia there are sometimes so many kangaroos that if not culled they can end up starving themselves out (hmm humans may do that one day!) .  For those of you who are vegetarian (as I mostly am these days) you could swap the kangaroo for mushrooms & pecans and if you’re kosher or vegetarian, skip the bacon.  Anyway, here goes: Read the rest of this entry »

  Happy New Year alll!!!

with warmest wishes,  Donna *)

  Hi friends, colleagues and enthusiasts!

It’s Christmas and what a year! Read the rest of this entry »

  A forum recently started a thread called ‘I hate’.
I went on a bit of a bender but I can promise my ‘I love’ list is much longer than my hate list. Read the rest of this entry »

  Writing a book, making cards, artworks, crafts, CDs, DVDs are all wonderful creative things to do if you can’t take work outside of the house and you can always start a free quality blog which you can use to showcase your work, even link it to an online payment facility to take payments.  But it’s hard to sell anything right now as people don’t have money and for many the future of their jobs is uncertain so they are understandably holding onto their money very tightly.

So what else can a stay at home parent, housebound or transport-limited person do?  Read the rest of this entry »

  This is a little clip I did last Christmas.

Enjoy.

Donna Williams *)

http://www.donnawilliams.net

  We all get them, year after year….those PR ‘Christmas cards’ which remind us that a company is thinking of us (and their potential future capacity to profit from us).  Read the rest of this entry »

  Sacha Vais, editor and founder of Irked Magazine, contacted me with an exciting interview opportunity.  I was to be their Melbourne correspondent covering the International Homeless World Cup which had come to Melbourne this week.  Here’s the scoop.

  Each month I send out a challenge for people to send me a 1-2 word topic they’d like me to write a poem to and I must write all the poems in the challenge within 48 hours. People CAN’T send names (yes, everyone wants one named after their child ) but they can send other 1-2 word titles. Each sender only gets me writing one poem per poetry challenge and the more surreal the challenge, the better. Read the rest of this entry »

I was asked by a parent of a son with autism about my language history.  I hope there comes a day where we stop understand that serious language and communication disorders in those with autism actually have identifiable labels of their own with their own associated strategies and treatments and stop mystifying them as ‘the autism’.  So here’s what I’d replied to the question. Read the rest of this entry »