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A Christmas Story

December 25, 2011

Most of our days are filled with a variety of challenges, which often come with a mix of gifts, frustrations, and everything in between. Then there are the rare days when everything coalesces into this unending day of goodness. Friday turned into this kind of day. It started out with a string of good happenings. [...]

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2012 – An Invitation to the Year of Getting Your Crap Together

December 16, 2011

The last couple of years I’ve done Three Words instead of New Year’s Resolutions. I’ve found this to be enormously useful, especially when compared to the incredibly low bar set by the complete lack of success we have ever had with our Resolutions. This is the time when I like to review the year and [...]

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Who We Are

December 1, 2011

This is your story and mine. This is who we are. You know fear. No, you know pure terror. You have discovered unimaginable joys. You feel everything. Intensely. Completely. There are days your soul catches fire. No emotion is beyond you. You will always be parenting without a net. But it can be done. It [...]

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A Journey of a Thousand Miles

November 29, 2011

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao-Tzu Today I achieved something momentous, and I almost missed it. I completed my 1,000th mile since I decided to start running again and taking control of my health in August 2010. I’ve run well over 800 of those miles in 2011, including [...]

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After So Long, I Believe It Now

November 21, 2011

Speak your mind — even if your voice shakes. – Maggie Kuhn Our J-Man is starting to string syllables together. Not many, but he’s doing it. He’s slowly but surely doing it without prompting. It rarely exceeds three or four halting words, but he’s doing it. This feels like our version of the moon landing. [...]

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Letter to a Struggling Parent

November 15, 2011

To my friend and fellow wanderer in this wilderness, I wanted to write you this letter because I know you’ve been clinging to the end of your rope, digging your fingernails into jagged holds until they break and bleed, desperate to not fall. I know you’re so damn tired you can hardly stand anymore. I [...]

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What Does ‘Strong’ Mean to You?

October 14, 2011

I’m going to ask the question in the title of this post again at the end, but I want to first bring up a few things I’ve thought about concerning what ‘strong’ means in our lives as parents of autistic and special needs children. I’ve had a lot of conversations with people about how difficult [...]

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Steve Jobs and What to Give a $@!+ About

October 7, 2011

I hadn’t intended to note the passing of Steve Jobs here, however as I thought about it, there are a couple of things that I believe are worth noting for parents and caregivers of children with autism. Jobs and the creatives at Apple – quite accidentally – gave us an amazing array of new tools [...]

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