Posted in autism, humor, life, sci-fi, walkabout, writing, tagged agent, author, autistic, blog, conference, editor, fiction, Firefly, Firefox, literary, NaNoWriMo, network, Pennwriters, seminar, writing, YA on May 12, 2008 | 9 Comments »
“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.” — [...]
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Posted in autism, humor, life, parenthood, walkabout, writing, tagged Asperger's, autistic, blog, carnival, Dessert, kilroy, soup to nuts, spectrum, writing on May 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
While some may use a blog as a place to just spew all that awful emotional crap that you don’t feel your loved ones deserve to enjoy, most of us hope that our blog will be read by others, and the more “others” the better. This is one of the reasons to engage in the [...]
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Posted in autism, life, parenthood, walkabout, writing, tagged autistic, carnival, children, crutches, electronic music, family, music, nature, spring on April 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
We’ve had a remarkably non-autistic week.
The children have squabbled with each other and bossed each other just like everyone else’s kids. They’ve told endless jokes at the dinner table. It’s been maddening. But again, this must be progress.
Captain Oblivious is recovering well and has discovered that he can, in fact, walk on his cast [...]
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Posted in autism, life, parenthood, tagged accommodate, autism awareness, autistic, cure, fibromyalgia, intervention, migraine, pain, therapy on April 15, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again –Tori Amos
This morning at 4:40, I woke up from a sound sleep in the midst of the worst headache I’d experienced in 16 years. I knew it had been 16 years because the last time I had a headache that bad, I took my [...]
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