Karla Pahel is a mother of three. She is caregiver to her 22 year old daughter with autism. Her work has appeared in Image Journal, The Branches: A Journal of literature and Philosophy, The Baltimore Sun, and A Prairie Home Companion's First Person Series. She is founder of Free Writes and Coffee, a radically inclusive writing community in Catonsville that collaborates with My Life Learning, An Adult Day Program for Autistic Young Adults and BGiftE a nonprofit reforestation project in… more