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 […]
I stumbled across this story because I was wasting time looking at end-of-year pictures on the Seattle PI web site. There is so much wrong here, but it strikes me that this 14 year old boy had an individual Jonestown because he drank the kool-aid.
Here are the bones of the story:
Dennis Lindberg was born […]
I don’t give people second chances, I give them second thoughts.
-JMan, aged 8
I think about marriage a lot. I have been married twice, both times to women who grew up in divorced families that were high in conflict. I know now that people who grow up in divorced families where there is a high degree of conflict statistically trend toward divorce also. The same […]
Predation is omnipresent. Perhaps it is part of the nature of existence.
Midtown Group is an AA group in the Washington - Baltimore area. The leader of the group, Michael Quinones seems to have used it as his happy hunting ground.
But according to more than a dozen young people who structured their lives around the group, […]
To hold a baby, helpless (except for JMan, who tried to stand up on day 2 of life) is a centering event. At the time that I held Bookzilla for the first time, I knew that who I was and what I wanted mattered not a whit to what ever I needed to do to […]
It’s 3 am. I’m up, channel surfing. I went to bed at 9 pm and woke up with a headache. I didn’t drink enough water yesterday and my sinuses are like cement. I drank a pint of water and retired to the sofa.
I watch “While You Were Sleeping”, some informercials, a […]