AAM: “It’s Not Always Autism”
National Autism Awareness Month (AAM) kicked off yesterday and today is World Autism Awareness Day. This month I'm ramping up this blog's coverage on autism. In addition to my weekly Wednesday Autism/DisAbility posts, some of the time I'll be bleeding the...
Disappointing: McMillan Leaves Race
photo: Leisa A. HammettTennessee Democratic gubernatorial candidate Kim McMillan announced yesterday she will drop out of the race. McMillan would have been the first woman governor in our southern state. Instead, she will be running for mayor in Tennessee's fifth...
Best-selling Novelist Picoult Rules the House with Book on Asperger’s
After submitting my press credentials, I requested a press review copy of House Rules from the publisher. This is an independent review. "They tell me I'm lucky to have a son who's so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the...
Moving Remnants: Unearthed Poetry
"Barn Deconstruction, New Market, Tenn., 1999 composite silver gelatin; copyright: David Underwood. Moving--still. Hands, dust-coated. Memories reeling. Wedged within rows of journals decades old. A faded gold folder thick with yellowing typing paper....
Art: Seriously HOT!
Yes, this has been around awhile, but I'm just now seeing it. One of those rare times that I'm motivated to go out and buy a CD because I'm that impressed. Everything about this little number here is seriously HOT! See if you don't think so too--? And...
Spectrum Wisdom, Power & Beauty
Do you know about TED? You must if you don't! It shouldn't have surprised me to discover, on someone's blog, Temple's on TED....The You Tube video, below, is is long. Eighteen minutes worth. BUT! It's an amazing lecture followed by an important...
Goodbye. I’m Moving On. But Not Without My…
Goodbye 2009. That's right. Long-time Goodbye. It's the end of the third month of of the second decade of the new millennium, but I'm still saying Goodbye to the last. And that's because I'm Packing. Packing to leave this place. When I took this...
