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Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures
“525,600 minutes. 525,000 moments so dear. 525,600 minutes. How do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee. In inches, in miles, in laughter and strife....
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A Day In the Park Was Not Always A Walk In The Park
Inspiration for my posts often comes from the blogs I follow. A poignant piece will strike an all-too familiar chord in me and as I read I will be saying aloud to writer, as if they are sitting beside...
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A Talk With Ted About Growing Up With Aspergers, Revisited
As I am quietly trying to sort out a head full of conflicting and controversial thoughts about the world and autism, I thought I would republish this post from January 2012. I liked revisiting this...
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Ted And A Heap, Excuse Me, Four Cubic Yards, Of Gravel
Yesterday we had four cubic yards of gravel delivered as part of our backyard remodeling project. This morning as I looked out the window and was wondering how many shovel fulls it was going to take to...
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On The Necessity Of Checking Your Child’s Medical Records
Ted is back on medication. He hasn’t taken a prescription drug since July 2004 when I weaned him off of Zoloft after being told by one practitioner that the dosage of Zoloft another practitioner had...
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How It Became About So Much More Than Taking Medication, Part 1
It has been said that life’s pivotal moments don’t come with a parting of the sky and flashes of lightning. Instead pivotal moments just quietly happen. They can be so ordinary, so clothed in simple...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern
Bricks. To most, they aren’t very interesting. They’re just little 4″x8″x2″ blocks of clay used in construction. They’re everywhere. I didn’t pay any attention to them. That is, until one September day...
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A Picture Says A Thousand Words An Autistic Child May Not Say
Evaluator in Chief, by blogger Ann Kilter is a post about a journal entry she wrote on December 23, 1991. On December 23, 1991, while my thoughts were filled with my infant son Teddy celebrating his...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections
My son Ted is the least material person I know. He is completely disinterested in the latest gadgets and must haves, and although this utter lack of desire to acquire does pose a bit of challenge come...
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No, Our Son Doesn’t Have Leukemia. He’s Autistic and Took Dexedrine
Medicine. Good grief. It’s the topic I have yet to mention, even once, in the 14 months I have been writing about Ted and our journey with Aspergers. Until now. For eight years we put prescription...
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