Me: Gee, this car is already six years old.
Bookzilla: We could open the hood and shove in some birthday cake.
Me: (gasping for breath)
David Carr has written a searingly beautiful account of his journey from junkiedom to normalcy. This book is written 20 years after the fact and a constant theme is the unreliable nature of his memory.
To be an addict is to be something of a cognitive acrobat. You spread versions of yourself around, giving each […]
I pointed out the shafts of sunlight pouring through a break in the clouds to the west of Kirkland, over Lake Washington. Seattle was in the background on the other side.
“It looks like an open door to God.”
– JMan, 8
I just experienced something and I don’t know if this is what it is like to be a substance abuser.
I went by the school to get Bookzilla. It’s Thursday, the one-on-one day. One-on-one means that each child gets time with a parent one-on-one. JMan thought that he had time with me today. I told him […]
I pointed out the shafts of sunlight over Lake Washington to JMan. We were heading west in Kirkland, and I saw the sunlight overlaying Seattle on the west side of the lake.
“It looks like an open doorway to heaven.”
–JMan, 8
Shimmer was one of my favorite songs. When this song came out, I projected it onto my life and it is what I believed in. But then the divorce happened and I couldn’t listen to this song. It hurt to remember my aborted hopes and dreams after the divorce.
I found this […]
Autism is scary in large part because we don’t understand it. As a parent, it’s the kind of thing that we all fear. This is a great article about new ideas in autism study. It focuses on Amanda Baggs.
This movement is being fueled by a small but growing cadre of neuropsychological researchers […]
I saw this film at Sundance in 2003. It was gut wrenching. It has been posted to YouTube in two parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E-vsd3EWnQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQWHa_Y5um8
I remember diagramming sentences in the seventh grade. I don’t think kids do that these days. I tried to explain it to Bookzilla, but she didn’t get it. This is beautiful.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for […]
Breakfast, 7.45 am. JMan is looking at the syrup server. I get the syrup in the big jug at Costco and use a ketchup server with the top trimmed back to serve the syrup at table. The server is about the shape and size of a baby bottle. There’s about 1/4 […]