• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • About
    • About Kristin
    • Q&A
  • Book
    • About the Book
    • Reviews
  • Events
  • Blog
  • Resources
    • Media Kit
    • Survival Guide
    • Discussion Questions
    • Finding your own Frightful
  • Media
  • Contact

Kristin Jarvis Adams

Author

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn

parenting

The Girls

November 22, 2020 by Kristin Jarvis Adams 7 Comments

A friend recently gave me a copy of a newspaper article titled, The Girls, by Ann Hood. Hood reminisced about her mother’s loyal group of women friends that for decades, had gathered in one another’s home every Friday night to eat dinner, gossip, and play cards. These women were prickly and rough ... Read More >>

Filed Under: Letters From The Coop Tagged With: gratitude, mind & body health, parenting

The Kids’ Table

November 23, 2018 by Kristin Jarvis Adams 9 Comments

My family’s Thanksgiving feast changes each year as different faces grace the table. People move away, pass away, get married, and age, and squirrelly children become vibrant young adults. For as long as I can remember, my parents have welcomed and embraced anyone who walked through their front ... Read More >>

Filed Under: Letters From The Coop Tagged With: gratitude, parenting

Sweet Success

When One Teacher Looked Beyond the Autism Label

June 11, 2018 by Kristin Jarvis Adams 4 Comments

At my first parent teacher conference of my son’s third-grade year, the special education teacher shuffled papers around her desk for thirty seconds too long. Nervous sweat pricked at my skin and I feared nothing but more problems. “I think we should find something to highlight Andrew’s skills in ... Read More >>

Filed Under: Letters From The Coop Tagged With: autism, parenting

Finding Your Own Frightful: CONTEST

April 3, 2018 by Kristin Jarvis Adams Leave a Comment

Share your story with me! I want to know about a time when you relied on someone or something that became your touchstone during a difficult period in your life. Did you have an invisible friend as a child? An animal whom you loved more than anything else? An old smelly blanket your mother refused ... Read More >>

Filed Under: Letters From The Coop Tagged With: autism, books, chickens, mind & body health, parenting

Mommy Sabbatical

December 13, 2017 by Kristin Jarvis Adams 4 Comments

I have been to Seattle Children’s Hospital so many times with my son that I’ve become weirdly numb to the routine. I watch, detached, as families walk through the doors seeking answers to impossible questions or treatments for an illness that seems to have no name. I’ve been there. I’ve done ... Read More >>

Filed Under: Letters From The Coop Tagged With: Health & Wellness, mind & body health, parenting

2 Moms in Conversation about Raising That Kid

May 8, 2017 by Kristin Jarvis Adams Leave a Comment

Every kid is That kid: Your special someone who’s unique. Still, parents and authors Kristin Jarvis Adams and Nancy Schatz Alton know what it’s like when you have the kid that all the other kids (and parents) wonder about. What’s it like to raise a child with autism who has a life-threatening ... Read More >>

Filed Under: Letters From The Coop Tagged With: autism, parenting

How my Autistic Son Teaches me to Live with Passion

March 31, 2017 by Kristin Jarvis Adams Leave a Comment

My son dreams of becoming a chef. Spatulas, tongs, measuring cups, a tabletop deep fryer, and a dozen boxes of red velvet cake mix line his bookshelves like an honor guard of mismatched soldiers. His desk is a library of notebooks filled with recipes he gleaned while watching hundreds of hours of ... Read More >>

Filed Under: Letters From The Coop Tagged With: autism, parenting, Recipes

Primary Sidebar

The Chicken Who Saved Us

The Remarkable Story of Andrew and Frightful

Exploring the incredible bond between human and animal

Buy Now

Frightful HIGH RES 2When eight-year-old Andrew tells his pet chicken that his body is trying to kill him, Andrew’s family and an entire medical community are launched into a decade-long quest for answers. Readers will journey to places where chickens talk, superheroes come alive, and a young autistic boy on the brink of death, finds the courage to survive. Read More >>

Meet Kristin

kristinjadams

Kristin Adams spent her childhood in a small town east of Seattle. She could be found building forts in the evergreen forest behind her house, zooming down the street on her banana-seat bike, or searching for treasures in the back of antique cars in her family’s auto wrecking yard.  Learn More >>

Topics

  • autism
  • books
  • chickens
  • Faith
  • gratitude
  • Health & Wellness
  • mind & body health
  • parenting
  • Recipes
  • speaking

Receive Letters From the Coop to your inbox

Copyright © 2021 · Kristin Jarvis Adams · Website Customizations by Cascade Valley Designs