NOTE: I was unable to post today due to work obligations. Veronica graciously offered to step in. My blogging career began with a guest post, so who knows, maybe this will be the start of something big for her. By Veronica I don’t pretend to be a writer like my husband. I am a scientist, […]
Read more "Guest Post: Melrose Saves A Meltdown"Lots of parents of kids on the autism spectrum talk about their lives as a “roller-coaster ride” — and it certainly is full of ups and downs. Then again, so are most people’s lives. What makes this metaphor particularly apt is that not only does a roller coaster go up and down, but the it […]
Read more "The Roller Coaster Thing"I have a confession to make. Sometimes, I feel like a fraud. Sometimes, I feel like a fraud for writing about Ryan’s struggles with autism, because he is mildly affected and I know our lives have little in common with those who parent children who may be non-verbal, self-injurious, and unable to care for themselves. […]
Read more "This Is What Autism Looks Like"I should have written this post when we got home from the Devils game Friday night, when the memory was still fresh. Before we spent much of the next two days negotiating with Ryan over all manner of behaviors: Wishing he would come outside and join his cousins in the pool Watching him explode every […]
Read more "This Is What Happiness Looks Like"Last night was a rare night out for Veronica and I. The occasion was a fundraising dinner for a literacy foundation run by a friend, held at a nearby country club. The evening ended up turning out so wonderful that it was hard to remember how it started. But this is a blog about our […]
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Pucks and Puzzle Pieces 