Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

Today, at the 504 : "Then there's the real kind of invisibility, the kind familiar to the poor or the disadvantaged. And most of ...

Today, at Support for Special Needs : "Schuyler's differences are significant. Her life will be similarly different, and I antici...

‎Today, at Support for Special Needs : "I once believed that a larger sense of community would benefit us all, that the rising tide r...

Today at Support for Special Needs : "So Schuyler learns to pass, and I try to show her that she doesn't need to while at the sam...

This morning, over at Support for Special Needs : "Sometimes we don’t ask too many questions. Sometimes we don’t pick apart the decis...

Over at The 504 : "Like most special needs parents, when I spend time with the parents of neurotypical children, I become hyperaware o...

Over at Support for Special Needs , I discuss what has become of me in a post that I could have called "What I Want to Be When I Grow U...

Two quick orders of business today. First of all, I want to very publicly thank Dr. Janice Light from Penn State's Department of Commu...

Over at Support for Special Needs , I discuss a movie we watched over the weekend, Now is Good , and how one of the central relationships of...

Today on Support for Special Needs , I discuss the societal battles that those of us in the disability community fight over and over, even t...

Today on Support for Special Needs , thoughts on Schuyler's return to school after the break, and how that maybe feels a little differen...

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 ...