The Loss of a Pet
Living on a farm… death happens. It happens fairly often, actually. We have five new baby chicks, and one of them drowned in the waterer last week. One night a raccoon got into the adult hens,...
View ArticleSo, about this autism and empathy thing….
People with autism lack empathy. Really?? ….I’m confused. Do the people who say this actually live with a person with autism… do they spend a lot of time getting to know people on the spectrum? Have...
View ArticleAutism Acceptance… begins at home, here.
Six guys with annoying habits and quirky interests. Six guys who have difficulty accepting other people’s annoying habits and quirky interests. But these guys love each other, they really do. They...
View ArticleFear and the fragile friendship
New York ComicCon 2012 Michael called tonight… thankfully at a very reasonable 730 PM, not midnight. He touched base with Ray, as he does almost every day (too often at midnight). They share the...
View ArticleFriday Night Funnies with a bunch of autistic guys
Jose Jalapeno on a stick I sat by the fireplace listening tonight… quietly… but laughing laughing laughing inside, at times just marvelling at the magic… as I wished, as always, that I could record the...
View ArticleThe Pursuit of Happiness: Juniper Hill Style
Ray was gone for three hours in the adjacent woods one afternoon this week. Three hours! I was just about to go looking for him when he came trudging Ray’s pond in bloom, 2013 back in rubber boots,...
View ArticleAutism and the Food Police… The right to eat too many doughnuts (or cream...
Oh MAN! Someone just broke open the new box of cream puffs that were defrosting for dessert and ate 10 of them! And now there are 5 more of us who are going to have to split the remaining 15…...
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