Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

Having written about Schuyler's impending IEP meeting, I suppose I should give a brief follow-up. The short version is that it felt lik...

I think the most effective way to get people to stop using the "r word" is not so much to try to ban its use or impose some kind ...

The Purple Ninja and Bughead Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob Tomorrow is Schuyler's ARD meeting. We'll meet with her school team...

"No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It's a popular tre...

Arrr. Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob "[We] see the face of God within the disabled. Their presence is a sign of God, who has chosen...

Wired Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob So the results of Schuyler's EEG are in, and they are... exactly what I thought they might be. ...

The world is just bound and determined to make me take a stand on the "R Word", isn't it? The short story of why this came ...

There's a lot to say about Schuyler's ambulatory EEG, I suppose, but perhaps the most important, at least at this early stage before...

"Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world, the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Lade...

Schuyler invited me into her room to hear a story she was going to tell some of her toy friends. I grabbed the Flip camera and just started...

Tomorrow, we see Schuyler's neurologist. Today, sidewalk chalk. Julie drew tulips. I drew a grass monster.

I have a love/hate relationship with spring in Texas. I love it for the storms that roll in during the late afternoons, setting off a flurry...

I would liken you To a night without stars Were it not for your eyes. I would liken you To a sleep without dreams Were it not for your songs...

Superhero Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob This is what we do now. We watch Schuyler, and we wait for signs that she's having absence...

R & S Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob The past seven days have been... well, up and down. Last week, the three of us flew to Nashvill...

Travels with Jasper Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob Today, Schuyler began taking the TAKS test. (This is the Texas Assessment of Knowled...

Here's an embarrassing but perhaps amusing story for you. (Before you ask, no, Schuyler was not home for this incident. It would not h...

S Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob Well, here we are. This morning saw an event that has loomed in the future, not as a bad thing, but ju...

Baby Schuyler Originally uploaded by Citizen Rob I had a memory pop into my head tonight, kind of out of nowhere. It was the fall of 1999, ...