Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

I haven't written much about Las Vegas. Part of the reason is that it turns out Schuyler and I have a random weird association with the ...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Those of us raising our kids in public school environments have a pretty good idea of wh...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   When I wrote about the little fish that quietly eat our kids up while we’re busy watchin...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  Schuyler was surrounded and engulfed and protected by a sea of women, and she understood,...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  In taking my own focus inward to her more immediate world and trying to help as best I ca...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   There are two kinds of deniers. There are the kind that are just goofy, like moon landin...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   I'm not going to try to pretend I'm hopeful, or that I believe the inherent good...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:    Protest forms special needs parents into people we would not otherwise be, and sometime...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  But the days roll past, and the Big Scary Thing becomes more and more background as the M...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  When Schuyler gets up tomorrow and faces her weary and deeply disheartened father, she wi...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   I hate this election season, like I hate anything that I find difficulty in explaining t...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Everyone cry out, because such a statement demands outcry. Ann Coulter stands proudly an...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   So many of the discussions and emails I've received lately have reminded me of how t...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   There are a lot of reasons I'm already disgusted and exhausted by this election seas...

This week at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt: In 2016, we're not just going to be choosing a president. We're going to be estab...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   You don't have to be Donald Trump to take a spin on that low road, either. You can b...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Special education is a funny thing. (Not so much “ha ha” funny, more like “Huh, that doe...

Today at Support for Special Needs : The challenging aspects of being the parent of a special needs kid aren’t always the things you don’t...

This week (sorry, I forgot to publish this on Monday) at Support for Special Needs : What I truly want is for my friends to run out of hur...

This week at Support for Special Needs : For those of us charged with caring for and helping to build independent lives with loved ones wi...