How Not To Travel

We went away to visit Veronica’s family not too long ago. It’s a trip we have made many times before, and it always comes with a healthy amount of anxiety, as it involves a plane flight, followed by a long drive, followed by a stay in a packed house where Ryan is always the first […]

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A Text From Ryan

I was flipping through the photo stream on my iPhone recently when I found a screen capture of a text message exchange that I had forgotten all about. It was a few a weeks ago, in the week after Hurricane Sandy rolled through New Jersey. Our kids were out of school the entire week and […]

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Tom Rinaldi Made Me Cry Again

Many of you have may know of the story of Anthony Starego, a person with autism who is the starting kicker on his high school’s football team. His story was covered by NBC’s Today Show earlier this fall and on Saturday he got the Tom Rinaldi treatment on ESPN’s College Gameday. If you’re not familiar […]

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Thanksgiving Family Football

I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving, full of time spent with family and friends, a plentiful feast, and football. We had all of that, and then some, with plenty of highs and lows thrown in for good measure. There were a few really trying moments, including one courtesy of the New York Jets, who […]

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Medication Frustration

For the first time in more than a month, we gave Ryan a small does of his medication this morning. It is not a decision we take lightly, nor did we arrive at it easily, but in recent days it has become obvious to us it was the right decision to make. All the behaviors […]

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