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The opening lines of Simon and Garfunkel’s tune “The 59th Street Bridge Song” (“Slow down, you move too fast. You got to make the morning...

I think my brain is broken. Or maybe it’s just worn out. Either way, it could use a tune up or some replacement parts or something… I...

Sometimes it strikes me just how differently Nolan and I perceive a situation. This weekend’s adventure gave me a couple of very clear...

Do you see that lady holding my son? Don’t let that sweet smile fool you. She could be tough. Long before she became a proud, doting...

I’ve said since before the first post of this blog that I don’t want to get political unless it pertains directly to autism/ programs/...

Spoiler Alert: No offspring were harmed in the making of this post. So we live in this strange state of semi-childproof daily living....

I look at this picture, which was taken a couple of months before I began my senior year of high school, and I think, boy, what a...

So this isn't a whole big introspective post like we so often do. But after seeing how well last week's "slice of life" post was...

“Ugh… What a week.” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said that. It seems to feel right most weeks-- including this week. So I...

Maybe it wasn’t a big deal and we wouldn’t be missing a lot, but I needed to find out so maybe I could be convinced. I’d been prepping...

I have a friend who started calling her son her Hairy Man Child when he was in his late teens. It makes total sense to me. Legally, he...

I know I’m not alone when I say that I can’t keep track of what day it is. What’s worse is that I’m still working full time-- my regular...

This isn’t really a post with any sort of Bey Family insight or update necessarily… It’s kind of not even a real post at all. I started...

A sunny, 66-degree early April day in western Wisconsin is cause for celebration in a part of the nation where we sometimes need to keep...

I’m starting to feel like Bill Murray’s character in "Groundhog Day". I suspect I’m not the only one. My days are all starting to look...

We have new neighbors moving in. Their house is still under construction, but very close to being done. Soon, mom and dad will have a...

Hey everyone! So when I talked about finding happy distractions, I promised a giveaway… I’m slower than I had hoped to be in getting it...

“Do you need anything?” Since I knew “A swingset!” wasn’t the answer she was looking for, I just told my sister that we were all set. ...

There was a time in my life somewhere between the day one of my elementary school teachers made it abundantly clear I would not be the...

These are strange times we’re living in. People are hoarding toilet paper and blaming China for a virus that neither the Chinese...