Update: Project Kindergarten
Last Spring, the wife and I were a bit worried about the prospect of our autistic son moving on to mainstream kindergarten from his special-ed pre-K class. What concerned us was the transition.
Autism and Asking “Why Me?”
As I sit and think about it, in the three years since my son was diagnosed with autism I can’t recall a single time when I asked “why me?”. Never did I consider myself the victim. If anything, I often questioned if I was somehow to blame, if even partially.
Remembering 9/11
Every anniversary since 9/11 – on Facebook, Twitter, in the media and around the proverbial water coolers – American gather to tell their story of where they were when the planes crashed, their reactions to watching the towers fall, and how they felt in the immediate aftermath. Across the country people donated money, blood, supplies,…
Birthday Burpees
For my birthday, I strongly hinted to my wife that should she be having any difficulty trying to decide what to get for me – aside from the night-vision goggles and/or a 20-something college girl working her way through school as an exotic dancer – that a Groupon for five EVO Camp or Spartan X…