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cipal when this matter came to the attention of the human resources director penny was offered a generous disability package and enhanced insurance she was allowed to retire this came about just as she was adjusting to being wheelchair bound other physical challenges also presented a problem it was just time to focus all our efforts on make life least stressful for her as possible still in all this she began studying for her third master s degree this time in educational technology at arizona state university west campus as aram was finishing his senior year in high school there was his mother forging ahead in another area of knowledge i was supplementing income over the summer by working at washington inventory service and was soon joined there by my son i worked for them for three years along with substituting in dysart and glendale union with all this aram and i managed to meet penny s needs at home share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on substack opens in new window substack like loading leave a comment tagged arizona state university west childcare developmental skills dysart unified school district educational technology family time glendale union high school district red cross the hana chronicles month 8 day 1 0 posted by sagittarian seeker on august 22 2026 in children collaborating community education family impediments inner struggles matters of faith personal values social spiritual striving august 22 2026 hana was in a dress for most of the day this was to mark the passing of eight months since she arrived very quietly in our midst it didn t stop her from practicing her standing or from dancing around with her father when we finally went out for dinner she had eaten hers and made a proper mess of her garb she wore a more comfortable onesie when we went to h mart s food court this past month has seen her master sitting up begin standing with assistance or by pulling herself up and making her own preferences known hana does not like wearing hats at least not when she is in a stroller she is okay with being put down for a nap but not so much for being put in the play pen and just left she wants to engage us in activities which include having one of us lie down and letting her crawl all over us after several minutes of interaction she is ready to play on her own she will eat anything put on her plate but when she is full the mouth stays closed and nothing will change her mind hana is often quiet around strangers yet lately she has started to say hi to people who seem friendly hana s note i had a bunch of photos taken this evening mostly of the same pose it seems my mom likes to take a lot of the same pictures i just want them to be done year in remembrance 2005 i began this year with a five month assignment at dysart unified school district as a preschool aide it was more fun than i had anticipated and i bonded well with the littles a couple of the children latched onto me almost as a surrogate grandparent that was okay we stuck close to home during the summer spending a week or two in prescott with penny s parents they moved from the house in kingswood to a more accessible house in a development called willow creek gardens in the fall i took a substitute assignment at a high school on the far west end of dysart teaching world history the classes were 2 3 serious students 1 3 unruly the department staff were helpful the principal was officious and the assistant principal made everything a game of gotcha the serious students and i were just as glad when the regular teacher returned that thanksgiving we began several years of thanksgiving dinner at the home of either of two brothers irving and nathan robbins friends of my in laws they alternated and penny s mother brought a pie or sweet potato casserole to contribute christmas was spent at the grand canyon baha i conference at the marriott resort near desert ridge in north phoenix several hundred people attended usually dressed in their finest penny began to use a wheelchair around the time of the holidays i had to carefully monitor her as she tried to get up and walk but her legs weren t cooperating a nurse who worked part time at the ymca showed me how to correctly lift penny by locking knees and then lifting with my legs that made a hard situation a tad easier share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on substack opens in new window substack like loading leave a comment tagged childcare developmental skills disability dysart unified school district grand canyon baha i coference h mart kingswood menseversary preschool thanksgiving willow creek gardens the hana chronicles month 7 day 31 0 posted by sagittarian seeker on august 21 2026 in assistance children collaborating community education family impediments inner struggles personal values social spiritual striving august 21 2026 this was one of the quieter days hana slept for an hour in mid morning and for two hours in the afternoon these naps don t interfere with her night s sleep so i think this is more evidence of a growth spurt when she wasn t napping we took our stroller walk made more enjoyable by the cloud cover which later burned off this is still the dry season she also did plenty of standing and took a couple of scooting steps each time along the bars of the playpen this evening we all came to consensus about hana s meals when she is full she keeps her mouth closed and will not take any more bites that is okay with her grownups hana s note i am so glad everyone understands me it is hard not to have words all the time but i m getting there year in remembrance 2004 penny went from cane to walker in the fall of 2003 she toughed this year out saying she had no intention of going into a wheelchair she would also not cut herself any slack when there was a baha i devotional on the second floor of an apartment building she insisted on going up one step at a time on her own i worked through the second semester at palo verde middle school with a modicum of support from the administration i was not holding things together though and resigned at the end of the year rather than drag everyone through the gathering mess it was actually a relief and the fall found me substitute teaching at glendale union high school district and doing well as it happened the three individuals who worked to keep me off balance in the previous school district didn t change their ways and were arrested for a couple of other transgressions the following school year i was not surprised life has a way of balancing things out even when it looks darkest share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on substack opens in new window substack like loading leave a comment tagged baha i childcare developmental skills disability glendale union high school district karma palo verde middle school the hana chronicles month 7 day 30 0 posted by sagittarian seeker on august 20 2026 in children collaborating community education family impediments inner struggles inspiration personal values social spiritual striving august 20 2026 hana spoke clearly papa you can do this as i struggled with the safety straps on her newly installed car seat this morning in the end i needed some reminders from aram over the phone but she was right i did a thing i got her safely strapped in and off we went to my chiropractor s office for my semi monthly adjustment hana was along for the ride and was quiet while i was adjusted and afterward while i paid the tab i got her safely strapped in for the ride home and the rest of the day was quiet my granddaughter is going through a growth spurt both physically and mentally she is nearly 30 tall and almost 19 pounds her vocalizations are ever more understandable she can project her voice quite well and not just when she is upset she also likes to get into mischief and so has had some clear boundaries drawn which she is slowly accepting without a whole lot of fuss no playing with food or eating utensils is my mantra at lunch and dinner hana s note i thought it was funny to open my mouth and let food fall out papa didn t think so and it was put right back on my spoon and back into my mouth oh well at least he plays around with me in the playpen year in remembrance 2003 i had a steady job for the 2002 03 academic year as an elementary school counselor for a small group of special needs students it was only for a year but it gave me a chance to do what i do best professionally that was about the only thing that approached normality in this most jarring of years in late april penny felt faint while waiting for a memorial service to start in a treeless cemetery in east phoenix she fell backwards and her head hit a cinder block she said she felt fine afterwards but we got her checked at an er for good measure not much out of the ordinary showed on the brain scan two weeks later as she was prepping for an unrelated procedure she again lost her balance and fell into a bathtub hitting her head against the wall tiles this triggered a long dormant neurological disease gradually she went from walking more slowly on her own to needing a cane by october she needed to use a walker we moved out of sierra pines in early september having purchased a nice cozy one story house in a fairly quiet neighbourhood in midtown phoenix on the near west side moving was accomplished over labor day weekend by then i had secured a job as a mathematics teacher at a middle school three blocks north of the house i could walk to work penny still worked at el mirage but had moved into a special education position aram was a sophomore at cortez despite having moved out of its attendance area my choice of jobs was another bad move though i got along with most of the students and both of my female co teachers relations with the team lead and with the administrators were not good their thinly veiled disdain for my disabled wife made things that much worse one bright spot though was a 75th birthday celebration for my mother who had never had a celebration in her honour alone in all my years anyway most of her surviving siblings were there along with a few of my dad s siblings and the oldest of her grandchildren we spent the next day in boston taking in some of her favourite sites riding around on a jump on and off bus we ended the weekend with a large gathering in her backyard with all the grandchildren present family can be healing share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on substack opens in new window substack like loading leave a comment tagged boundaries car seat childcare chiropractor counseling developmental skills diamond jubilee neurological disease sierra pines apartments single family home the hana chronicles month 7 day 29 0 posted by sagittarian seeker on august 19 2026 in assistance children collaborating community education family impediments inspiration personal values social spiritual striving august 19 2026 hana finally had enough of a dry chicken tender and tipped her plate over onto the high chair tray i put everything back onto the plate and after she had composed herself again after about ten minutes heated the meat in a slight water base she finished all the vegetables and grains and ate about half of the chicken then pushed the plate away there was nothing rude about the last action she was just not a fan of what was probably a tasteless item i think this girl will be happy when her pediatrician gives the go ahead for adding herbs and spices to her diet she is generally speaking a plate cleaner not a plate dumper my granddaughter is on a larger mission she can already stand for ten minutes with just one hand holding onto a bar of the playpen she can take 4 5 steps if someone is supporting her her speech has the appropriate cadence intonation reflective of her mood and even a questioning inflection when she wants to know something i can usually interpret what she is saying based on context there was good news when her mother got home this evening yunhee will have next week off hana will turn eight months old on saturday and have her mother s company for the week she seemed to get a bit of what her mother was saying and smiled at the three of us one at a time hana s note papa can be stubborn and i guess i can be also he is not mean though and when i lose my temper he just keeps calm i need that year in remembrance 2002 this seemed to be a year for the abductions of girls on a more open scale than in the past there was the case of elizabeth smart taken from her home in june she would be held captive until march 2003 there was erica pratt kidnapped near her home in philadelphia held in a house and able to escape the next day by chewing through the duct tape that bound her wrists and smashing a window some nearby children helped her get out of the house and alerted police other girls were not as fortunate and some were killed while the number of victimized girls was probably not any larger than the all too great number of such cases every year the media finally was getting sensitive to the phenomenon in part because of the work of john walsh and the national center for missing and exploited children the nation was also still dealing with the aftermath of september 11 and november 12 2001 as well as the shoe bomber who attempted to set of an explosive in his shoe while on a transatlantic flight in december of the the previous year a botched attempt to fly a plane into a bank headquarters in tampa and attacks on a jewish pre sschool in los angeles in march served only to keep fears raw then in october came the mass murders in bali 202 people being killed we saw the transportation safety agency established primarily at airports but also at ferry terminals and at railway stations through all this penny aram and i kept steady i contented myself with substitute teaching in two phoenix school districts and was able to offer continuity penny kept on as a second grade teacher at el mirage elementary aram finished middle school and began his freshman year at cortez high school near our apartment we had to deal with incompetent managers after the man who had negotiated our lease left mold issues persisted until i obtained the business phone number of the investment banker who owned the complex and called him to explain our situation he sent his own crew out from san diego and both our apartment and the next door neighbour s unit were successfully relieved of mold that sort of cooperation doesn t happen very often according to the attorney who helped us out on another issue charges being added on in mid year it was a fairly normal year for us ahead of some doozies share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on substack opens in new window substack like loading leave a comment tagged child abductions childcare cortez high school phoenix developmental skills el mirage elementary ongoing 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