On our autism journey, I stumbled through three stages of confusion. The first stage was when my son was really little. He couldn’t talk well, but he didn’t have other telltale markers for au...
https://apt11d.com/2024/09/24/confused-so-was-i-now-im-on-mission-to-demystify-autism/
I’ve been writing, nearly daily, for almost twenty years. Blog posts, newsletters, articles, social media — my words appear on the screen. After all this time, it’s effortless and a bit obs...
https://apt11d.com/2024/09/07/explaining-slow-newsletter-ing-the-dog-ate-my-homework/
After my younger sister graduated from Georgetown with a major in Spanish and Linguistics, she taught English to Spanish businessmen in Madrid. I visited her a couple of times, and we travelled a...
For the past couple of months, I’ve been using this newsletter to post snippets of a book that I’m working on. It’s a very practical book with tips for parents as they are guiding their neu...
After a week of frenzied shopping on Amazon — desk lamp, window fan, desk organizer, storage bins, extra long dorm sheets — Ian and I settled into the serious business of packing him up for a...
We’re driving up to Vermont in an hour to take Ian to autism college. We all packed up, and just waiting for Jonah. I have an hour to kill, so let’s BLOG! Jonah crashed at a friend’s apartm...
I just dumped two newsletter links on you, so I think it’s only fair to fill you in on life. What’s going on here? Oh, a lot. All good stuff. Ian finished public education. That milestone arr...
Photo by Damian Zaleski on Unsplash As a volunteer for the Saturday morning Beginners’ Running Group, my job is to latch onto one of the beginners and distract them from the pain of running....
https://apt11d.com/2024/05/07/failure-to-launch-privilege-and-real-struggles-of-the-20-somethings/
I’ve been working 14 hour days, seven days a week, since January. I need more down time, more coffee dates with Steve, but I’ll only get that by making tough decisions. I have to put all my e...
Yesterday, on the drive to Ian’s reading tutor, he said, “mom, when I see or hear a word, I see a picture of it in my mind.” “So, when you read the word ‘tree,’ you see a picture of...