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Reflections on the Alberta Child and Youth Advocate’s 2023-2024 Investigative Reports into the Deaths of Children and Youth in Care
Towards the end of my last post, I wrote these sentences: “Kids with a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder aren’t ‘born broken,’ but they are born with some of the crucial neurological connections incomplete, and hence if they are going to thrive in the world they will need to fit, and be fitted, consciously and intentionally,…
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Keeping On Keeping On (and Some Days Much Better Than That)
(Dec. 28, 2022; updated Sept. 14, 2025) Welcome! My name is J. Mark Smith. I’m a writer and literary scholar. And I’m a proud parent of two neurodiverse children. My family’s story is somewhat out of the ordinary. I tell about it in a work of narrative nonfiction — Motley Green Blanket — that was…
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WALKING THE ROAD 