Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

Today at Support for Special Needs , I discuss the passing from the old year to the new, and what that means for families like ours. This be...

Today at Support for Special Needs , a few words on Christmas Eve. I hope everyone reading this has a safe and joyous and transformative h...

The other day, for a post honoring the victims of the Newtown shooting , I quoted some lines by an anonymous poet, one that I knew from a ma...

The day before yesterday, or so it seems to me now, I met an extraordinary little person...

Today's post at Support for Special Needs is a simple one, mostly paying honor to those who died in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday. I t...

Okay, it's been a couple of days. Let's talk about guns. First of all, I've got what borders on a shameful confession to mak...

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." ― Stephen King HARTFORD COURANT ...

There is a brokenness Out of which comes the unbroken, A shatteredness out Of which blooms the unshatterable, There is a sorrow Beyond ...

Schuyler and I had a hard conversation tonight. It was an important one, and I'm not sure I got it wrong, exactly. But it was difficult ...

This week at Support for Special Needs , I discuss the seemingly counterintuitive way that a small birthday party for a group of kids who a...

Today at Support for Special Needs , I discuss the quiet place I go when things are troubling for me, the refuge I take when it becomes just...

This morning over at Support for Special Needs , I discuss the complicated nature of my relationship with Schuyler, which is no doubt both c...

This week at Support for Special Needs , I do something so clichéd in the world of bloggery that I'd might as well be posting pictures o...

Yes, it's November, which means that for the second year in a row, I'm growing a sad little creature on my lip in the cause of pr...

Today at Support for Special Needs , I discuss what is probably my worst skill as a special needs parent and advocate: the ability to transc...

"I have never been more hopeful about America. And I ask you to sustain that hope. I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind o...

Today at Support for Special Needs , we meet Vanellope von Schweetz, a character from the new Disney animated feature Wreck It Ralph and th...

Halloween is Schuyler's favorite holiday. It's probably mine, too, even though I rarely dress up. (The infamous Year of the Chicken ...

In today's post at Support for Special Needs , I discuss Schuyler's frustration with her disability, a frustration for which she has...

It's election season in the United States. This is a very special time for the people of this country, an opportunity to come together t...