Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

First of all, the CEO of Macmillan, John Sargent, has responded to the Amazon brouhaha . (When I see that word "brouhaha", I imag...

"I bleed the people." Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob Schuyler was writing sentences using spelling words for a homework assign...

Happy birthday, Mom.

Well, given my previous post, this may seem sort of ironic, but as of today, I am now writing once a month over at Hopeful Parents , a site ...

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." -- Ernest Hemingway ----- Yeah, I saw it . It di...

After it snowed the other day, I went looking for video to show Schuyler what we used to call REAL snow. I knew I had some boring old holid...

Santa's detritus Christmas morning hair White Christmas, if you get up before it melts off. (Which it did.) Christmas sunrise It's ...

"It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman...

A few facts about the next few days, along with an inescapable conclusion. Fact: Two of my best friends are getting married in Las Vegas o...

On the plane Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob I just wanted to take a moment and thank everyone from the North Carolina Assistive Technolo...

Too cool to smile Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob Schuyler and I are coming to North Carolina this week, for the North Carolina Assistive...

For parents of kids with cerebral palsy, I'm posting this on behalf of Adam Bowker . Adam is a speech pathologist and AAC researcher wh...

(Heh. "More on Bernie Goldberg". I'm twelve.) I had listed these updates on the last blog post, but at this point, I think t...

I'm going to start off by saying that I had no idea who Bernie Goldberg was before this. A few minutes on Wikipedia and his own website...

Walking for talking Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob Over the weekend, we participated in the 2009 Childhood Apraxia for Speech Walk in Fo...

On Halloween weekend, we had an amazing experience, one that we're unlikely to forget any time soon. Almost a week and a half later, we...

Excerpts from remarks by President Obama at the memorial service at Fort Hood, Texas. For those families who have lost a loved one, no words...

October 31, 2009 | 2009 Texas Book Festival | Austin TX Saving Your Children: Dads on an Uncertain Mission (l-r) Antonio Ruiz-Camacho (mo...

Amelia Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob This is the beginning of a busy weekend, beginning with an event tonight at Legacy Books here in P...

Since we'll be in Austin on Halloween for the Texas Book Festival, here's one more reason for you to come. You'll get to meet A...