What are the boundaries these days? I once had lunch with a single friend who told me that she had recently dated a guy who had immediately gone and written about their date on his blog, including every detail, sexual and otherwise. The date hadn’t gone particularly well and, in his post, he pretty much [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 23, 2009
So I Published a Book . . .
Well, whoopy-ding-dong-doody for me (wow, haven’t said that for thirty years.) My friends and family have made it clear they think it’s rude for me to complain about anything connected to getting a book published since the very fact that I get books published means I’m luckier than most, and any subsequent complaining makes me look [...]
March 19, 2009
Today’s the Official Pub Date for GROWING UP ON THE SPECTRUM
It should be in stores and available online today Growing Up on the Spectrum: A Guide to Life, Love, and Learning for Teens and Young Adults with Autism and Asperger’s is the second book that Dr. Lynn Kern Koegel and I have written together. Our first was Overcoming Autism: Finding the Answers, Strategies, and Hope [...]
March 16, 2009
How to Mother a Sick Child
Just do better than me, and you’re fine My daughter has a really bad cold, with chills and aches. I would call it the flu except she was the only one of our kids to get the flu shot so I REFUSE to call it the flu because that would make the fact that she’s [...]
March 10, 2009
The Sound of Styrofoam
Why do some sounds bother us so much? For the past five years, my husband and our younger kids have participated in an annual Pinewood Derby. Each year there’s a different theme and he and whichever child is participating brainstorm about what the car should look like–and then they spend way too much time and [...]
March 7, 2009
Rereading Beloved Old Books
The joy of rediscovering an old friend Since my kids can tear through a middle reader book in about an hour, I find myself–despite my belief in supporting independent bookstores–frequently urging them to find the next volume in whatever series they’re reading at the school or local library. They do, on occasion, but when it’s [...]
March 2, 2009
The Secret Dialogue of Women
We hear a frequency that men are deaf to. When I was younger, I hated anything that suggested men and women were different psychologically, emotionally, or intellectually. Yes, our bodies are different (in ways that mesh well, don’t you think?) but I always ascribed any less physical divisions to societal pressures and not anything innate. [...]
