When it comes to food, I’ve had the same guidelines since I was in college. I eat when I’m hungry. I stop when I’m full. I only eat food I enjoy. When it comes to exercise, I’ve had the same routine for the last six years or so: I do something that makes me sweat every […]
I never make New Year’s resolutions. I can’t really say why, I just never have. I did see a cute idea online a while back, and while we were eating dinner one night last week, I suggested we keep a small jar on the kitchen table, and every time something good happens to one of […]
I do something called Crossfit five or six days a week. You wouldn’t really know this to look at me. In fact, one of the trainers sort of suggested maybe I should stop telling people about Crossfit all the time. I’m not exactly the poster child for fitness. Every morning, the WOD, or the Workout […]
About ten years ago I watched an episode of Dr. Phil that changed my life. Well, maybe not my life exactly, but it changed a lot about how I feel about myself, which for most women is pretty much the same thing. Dr. Phil was talking with a young couple who were about to get […]
A lot of people warned me that I would experience puppy remorse the first few weeks after Wolfie came home. They cautioned me I might regret adopting a puppy; the mess, the barking, the tiny puddles on the floor. I am happy to report I do not regret having Wolfie, not one little bit. What I […]
Sometimes people ask me if I have any good resources to share. And I look at them blankly and they explain helpfully, “You know, resources about autism? Websites or books?” So, in no particular order, the following are my top seven resources for autism. (I know I said ten resources in the title, but I’m striving […]
Right now I’m sitting in a hospital waiting room. Or, to be exact, I’m sitting in the hallway outside of the waiting room, at a workstation specifically designed for people like me. People who are waiting in a hospital. I am waiting for Joe. At this moment, he is gowned and unconscious, undergoing a surgery called a […]
“Well, everything looks okay on the x-ray, except for one thing. The bones in your feet seem to be a little too, uh, skinny,” the doctor said, looking me over a little skeptically where I sat on the exam table. “Really?” I sucked in my cheeks and sat up a little straighter, trying to disguise the […]
“When can I get the Wii back. I need it. I need the Wii,” Jack begged as he trailed me from room to room. Last week I mentioned how our family was detoxing from the Wii. In fact, it wasn’t just the Wii gaming system. In what could be called an overzealous/brave/stupid moment of parenting zeal, […]
Yesterday afternoon I poked my head into the family room where three of my sons, Jack, Charlie, and Henry, were sprawled watching Scooby Doo, and announced we were going for haircuts. “No!” they shouted in unison. “No haircuts!” I told them we’d stop at the school book fair first, and jollied them out the door […]