In this week’s New York Times Op-Ed Section, Vivek H. Murthy, our surgeon general, writes, “Parents Are at Their Wits’ End. We Can Do Better.” He says that as he travels the country, pa...
https://apt11d.com/2024/09/18/parents-are-losing-their-minds-what-should-we-do-about-it/
Hi Friends! Today, I have a few smaller items for you, rather a book excerpt or full essay. Book Status With Ian away at college for only two more days, I’ve been writing up a storm this week. ...
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...
Steve and I are not empty nesters. For various reasons, we have two 20-something young men living with us. One of them needs driving to daily appointments. Everyone here ingests large quantities ...
I’m writing a book. My goal is have a finished rough draft by the end of June. This is an excerpt from Chapter Two, which discusses the transition time and mapping out options for the future. N...
https://apt11d.com/2024/05/31/the-freshman-year-tests-excerpt-from-chapter-two/
After a first child is born or a parent falls ill, I think every woman at some point goes, “Holy Crap. You expect me to do what? How the hell is that going to happen? I have to go work!” I ha...
https://apt11d.com/2024/05/31/women-are-still-americas-safety-net/
Photo by Valdemaras D. on Unsplash Parents often describe the time after a student finishes with high school school as “falling off the cliff.” What do they mean by that? Every child in th...
https://apt11d.com/2024/05/17/what-does-it-mean-to-fall-off-the-cliff/
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...
One of my favorite text/slang is TIL or Today I Learned. In the midst of the social decay that occupies just about everything related to social media, TIL is a 100% positive. It’s all about the...
https://apt11d.com/2023/12/14/til-everything-that-i-learned-today-and-over-the-past-two-weeks/
On October 7th, 2023, thousands of Hamas soldiers poured over the Israeli border, butchered about 1,200 people, and kidnapped another 250. During this assault, men committed acts of savagery beyo...
https://apt11d.com/2023/12/07/antisemiticism-on-the-college-campus/