We Go With Him

I remember "Dr. Mercola" who is, this late July Saturday morning in the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic and Charlie's work program in continued... Read more →

I wasn’t paying attention to all the controversy about the New Sappho fragments because, back in January of 2012, I had a lot else going... Read more →

I used to be a blogger and occasionally the spirit arises in me, for instance when writing up this week's discussion forum assignment for my... Read more →

Just ask Jim: I am not politically minded and grateful he watches the election coverage (Presidential debates, Vice-Presidential debates, post-debate-analysis etc.) routinely and with a... Read more →

IPP supported living supported employment independent living direct support a "quality management process" (as compared to the usual "quality assurance") self-determination legacy homes integrated communities... Read more →

I was fortunate to be a speaker at the BlogHer 2014 Special Needs Mini-Con session on Saturday afternoon with Shannon and Jen at the San... Read more →

Everytime I look at the word "advocacy" I have a brief Latin etymological brain freeze moment, the result of learning Latin at the age of... Read more →

Next Wednesday, January 22. He'll have been out of school for more than a month by then, his last day of school in New Jersey... Read more →

When Charlie was about 11 or 12, I'd feel sad every time he got on a carnival ride. He was always the biggest kid even... Read more →

In the Guardian's Comment Is Free section, Saturday, 6 July: Are they going to take my child away? A rather water-stained photo of Charlie and... Read more →

Courtesy of Bettelheim, it could be said that we mothers of autistic children are the original sh*tty moms -- the discredited refrigerator mother/bad parenting theory... Read more →

(1) Don't tell him that you're having a party to celebrate him turning 16 on the Ides of May. In full awareness of birthday party... Read more →

It's practically a cliché for me to assert that life with Charlie is quite unlike anything I ever could have imagined before he was born... Read more →

Accommodations. A very important word in regard to Charlie's education. A term that tends to be a harbinger of legalese as in 'time to invoke... Read more →

My piece, 'Do we really need a cure for autism?, was published last Friday, 22 February 2013, in the Guardian. It was a very huge... Read more →

We drove down to the beach where we used to stay at the beach house on Saturday morning and drove on sandy streets and sand... Read more →

Good lord and thank god our boy doesn't do Disney -- Walt, or Mickey, or the Blue Fairy Is Watching You. 'Protest against the rising... Read more →

In the context of having dealt quite often with a teenage boy in crisis and liable to self-harm and to other difficult things stemming from... Read more →

So I prefer not to get too political on this blog but I just want to say (for it must be acknoledged, while Charlie alternated... Read more →