Spilt Milk

Listen, you won't be everyone's cup of tea and that's okay. You don't need to be friends with everyone. But the friends you do have should celebrate you and want what's best for you without talking over you.

Repeat after me, "Fuck you, I'm fabulous." Go on. And again. One more time. Keep saying it until you believe it, and then keep saying it until everyone around you knows.

Cats have never once doubted their place in the world, neither should you.

Okay, I love you, be good!

I'll forgive all your straight guilt for $5, but only for today.

After that you have to apologize to your gay children and siblings for being a twat. 😘

I am a man in the same way every other man points out that ACTUALLY a tomato is technically a fruit and not a vegetable at all.

I'm a berry that isn't a berry but totally is, but in a certain light to certain people, I'm a tasty vegetable.

If that makes any sense.

For over 12 years, my son and I created the Pumpkin Bucket Project, filling Halloween buckets with non food items for disabled kids that didn't always participate in Halloween like their friends. It was fun and the kids loved it. Then my son graduated and we stopped. But I kept feeling a pull to do something similar.

Recently we participated in a graduate research project trying to create a standardized cart for autistic adults and children that would be used in emergency rooms across the state.

That sparked an idea of making something like that, but smaller for police and eventually firefighters to carry in their vehicles to help calm and de-escalate medical crisis and other emergency situations.

I would like to make First Responder Autistic Calming Kits, or FRACK bags.

Each one would hopefully go into a police vehicle, and then during medical crisis or emergency situations, the cops could pull this out to help autistic adults and children calm themselves to de-escalate tensions.

I've created a wishlist, and each item has a small explanation for why I included it.

I would really appreciate any help completing the list, and at donation will include everyone's names that made it possible.

I think this will replace our Sensory Pumpkin Buckets, and once a year we'll make ten of these and donate them to the local PDs around us to make our disabled population, adult and children, safer.

If you would like to help, I'm including the link. There's no obligation. I'm just hoping to make our families a little bit safer as we learn more.