The other night, while I was up with insomnia, I started making a "You Suck" list. It's just one of many lists that go through my head when my other non-sleeping choices are to: Make a list from the other 100 lists regarding everything from "Brilliant blog posts that come to me...at 2 a.m." to [...]

So we're back from Mexico. We failed to get pictures of us swimming with dolphins, ate one of the best meals of our lives, and almost got in a fist fight with a TSA agent. Just your typical spring break... A little background: Tenzin, my husband, and I made the monumentally bad decision to purchase [...]

More tales from the autism front. Today's questions come from the mother of "Tara," a 3-and-a-half year old who was just diagnosed. Keep in mind that I've never met these people, so I'm basically just relaying what we did in these same situations. Our son, Newt, was diagnosed with high-functioning autism at the same age and [...]

Second post of the day, but not for a very good reason. It's been six months since we lost my cousin, Logan. It's funny that we use that word. Lost. Like finding the person is an option or possibility at some point. "Lost" conjures up a temporary condition. Maybe that's why we use it. We [...]

Yesterday was my dog's first birthday. We actually thought it was this coming Monday (based on our best estimates), but our friend* who got a puppy from the same litter posted her dog's picture on Facebook and, well, oops. I'm guessing most people don't celebrate their dogs' birthdays. We're a little odd**. On the one [...]

So every year for I don't know how many years (I'd have to look it up) we've had a Chinese New Year party. It's something my husband, Tenzin, and I always wanted to do before we had kids but never managed to pull together. Then we tried to do it after kids and could never [...]

So last week, I wrote about what my son, Newt, was like as a young child and what led us to get him tested for autism. This week, I'll give you the not-so-brief rundown of what we ended up doing for school and what we didn't do for therapy. On the day he was diagnosed [...]

So for whatever reason -- search engines, moving to Wordpress, tiny elves -- I've recently gotten several inquiries about my son, Newt, and all the autism stuff we went through with him in his "youth." He's now 10. So old. I've been wanting to write the story of what happened with Newt for a long time, [...]

So I am spent. Spent. These are the days when my body likes to remind me that "No, you can't go skiing on Saturday, hiking on Sunday, and then expect to live to tell about it. Ha ha!" Or, I should say, "Bwwahaha!" I have a feeling my body has a tendency towards sick and [...]