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"Look Mom It's A Dinosaur Butt"

I couldn’t believe it. I swear, it sounded like she said “Look Mom! A dinosaur butt!” What she actually said was “Look Mom! A dinosaur foot!” It was hilarious. My daughter is always comin…
Knowing When to Let Things Slide

Last week, my 24 year old son Matthew and I went on a trip to Chicago, a trip that he had been saving for for quite some time. As we were packing the day before, I remembered a passage from John Elder Robison's book B…
Backseat driving

I’ve talked before about my son’s backseat driving in the car. Well, things are about to go to a whole new level. Kai has discovered the speedometer. My intrepid wife is usually the one who drives our so…
Travels with Autism - Time to Prepare!

At this time of year you might be lucky enough to be planning a holiday. And some of you, thanks to a negative experience in the past might be having trepidations - I have some advice that might make it easier and m…
Epic Adventure

"i'm ready for our epic adventure:D" read the text from Allie. We all had the same sense that a week in Montana's Glacier National Park with no wifi, cell coverage, or television would be just that: epic.
If only...

My life would be good if I had a bowling alley in my basement. Or a children's library. Or wheelbarrows full of snow. Or a candy shop. Martin loves all these places. Excursions to these sites make for good days. But ex…
Summer Occurences

Readers, readers, I've neglected you. Life has been too full of road trips and popsicles, pool visits and evenings on the porch. And in the spirit of full disclosure, I'm finishing up copy edits on a book manuscript. S…
Princess Tiana's magical autism moment

Ever experienced a 'down' day when you've felt your work is unnoticed and under appreciated? Well, I had one of those yesterday while stressing over the writing of an article titled, "The benefits of Autistic Travel…
A vacation... for me.

As I was cleaning out my files, I came across this story. Although I wrote it more than twenty years ago when Brandon was fifteen, I thought it was worth sharing. For Brandon's fifteenth birthday my sister asked if Bra…
Day at the Beach

A group of friends from our UCSC college days decided to get together and head to the beach in Santa Cruz. We could not get away for the overnight part, but we did enjoy meeting up with them on the second day. Can I j…