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The Light at the End of the Tunnel May Not Be an Oncoming Train

May 26, 2010

According to his teachers, the J-man is going through the Terrible Twos/Threes developmental stage. Since he is pretty close to five, it’s a little hard to deal with. He pushes our buttons in many ways, every day. From just being incredibly loud when Dale Jr is trying to sleep to outright physical defiance, he has [...]

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Leap Days and Our Children’s Unchartable Development

March 14, 2010

Child development books typically portray your child’s growth as a gradually, but steadily, up-sloping line described in neatly organized groups of milestones and checkboxes. Days like yesterday promote the idea that a book about autistic child development would be rather like taking a bucket full of checkboxes, strapping that bucket to a roller coaster, and [...]

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Big B, Little B, What Begins with B?

March 2, 2010

Dr. Seuss’s Birthday! B, B, B! We’d be seriously remiss if we didn’t mention that today is the birthday of the great Dr. Seuss. We feel forever in his debt because books like the ABC book, There’s a Wocket in My Pocket, Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? were some of the most essential pieces [...]

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I Have a Dream for Autism

January 18, 2010

I humbly ask Dr. King’s forgiveness for borrowing from his eloquence and for the meager quality of my own words as I draw from his gift to us, one of the most transcendent speeches in our history. All generations after him will be asked to tell about their dreams for our world. Here are some [...]

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The Sign for Brother

October 29, 2009

As you may be aware, the J-man is in love with Rachel Coleman from Signing Time. In Love. We watch at least 5 DVDs per week, and depending on our ability to walk around/interact, maybe more. (Tim has been having serious back problems lately, and has actually had trouble walking.) The J-man does not actually [...]

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In Dreams Awake

October 4, 2009

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” – Henry David Thoreau “The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.” – Anaïs Nin Today, a dream of mine became real. You know, those wonderful dreams you have [...]

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All the Good Things

October 2, 2009

My health has just been for crap lately, so crawling out from under my self-pity and general groaning – which I’m not good at in general – has required some serious conscious effort on my part. Thankfully, the J-Man has his ways of snapping me out of it with yet more astonishing new things he’s [...]

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Simple Gifts

August 31, 2009

This has been an eventful week here in the Flashlight House to say the least. Late last week we celebrated the anniversary of Mary’s 29th birthday! And tomorrow the J-Man turns 4. I can’t believe it; time goes by so fast. We don’t do much in the way of birthday presents or parties around here [...]

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