Friday the 13th? I wasn't watching the calendar. That would explain why I woke up with very annoying "Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" on a rerun loop in my head for no apparent reason. Oy. I'm trying to coax my mental turntable to the next track, which I remember from my childhood as being "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." I always liked how it ( Read more... )

Where did September go? It disappeared in a whirl of 8 back-to-school nights, special ed meetings, hockey meetings, school paperwork, sports paperwork, dance, dr appointments, hosting Bookworm's bday, hosting Rosh Hashanah, and volunteer events.

Worst thing? jpgr had to cancel her visit ( Read more... )

Have I mentioned that kids on the autism spectrum tend to lack the brain-to-mouth filter that others of us are sometimes able to engage ( Read more... )

Hey, happy almost spring.
I'm apologizing again, I had some great comments from some long-missed pals on my last two entires and I fell off the end of the world again without answering them. So hugs to all but especially to katinka and jiminyc, I miss you girls! And JiminyC, you still owe me a photo from Asbury Park ( Read more... )

Where have I been? No, I'm asking myself. Seriously, lately life's been a whirlwind, much of it spent in the car. Half hour north for soccer. 40 minutes south for dance. 40 minutes west for baseball. 30 minutes north for hockey. 30 minutes south for chiropractic. Etc etc. Lucky I'm paying, as of today, $2.75 a gallon for gas. (Not really ( Read more... )

Now that I have rediscovered LJ, or at least time to post, I was going to toss out a couple of "moral dilemmas" for you to ponder, the first being why I continue to subscribe to the NY Times when they continue to treat the Mets as bastard children. (Angels fans? White Sox fans? Anyone help me out here?) The second was whether it is less ethical, ( Read more... )

Because that's what we humans do. We're just some sort of naturally polarized beings, so we flock to some opinions and are forecefully repelled by others, whether we're talking politics, gender, law, television, education, environment, you name it. I know I do the kneejerk aplenty but I try, more and more, to evaluate before I eviscerate, because ( Read more... )

Driving along in the car with Shrek yesterday, dropping Bookworm and her pal at dance and making our way home. The drive parallels the railroad tracks of the North Jersey Coast Line, passing several stations. Every Monday (and any other day we take this road) Shrek loudly announces the towns we travel through, as well as their stations. Someday ( Read more... )

Mother's Day morning, while I was looking forward to sleeping in, I wasn't too cranky to be leapt upon and showered with greetings by Shrek at 7:something, because that made me awake enough to thoroughly enjoy being serenaded by Luke with a "Mother's Day Medly" of his own creation, encompassing tunes from - *giggles just thinking about it* - and in ( Read more... )

Second post of the day, because I want everyone to go into the weekend knowing that People are Good. Really ( Read more... )