From the monthly archives:

November 2008

My Version of Black Friday

November 28, 2008

I have never gone out on Black Friday for shopping – I value my sleep and dislike large crowds. However, today I had reason to go out – LED Christmas lights were on sale at Home Depot! I didn’t bother waking up early, when I woke up I headed out. I did [...]

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Giving New Meaning to the Term Hard Head

November 24, 2008

Alex has a hard head…I didn’t know he did, but he does. A few weeks ago he came home from school with a huge knot on his forehead, the thing was HUGE! It was under his bangs so I didn’t notice it until after he had showered. I asked if he went [...]

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Two Years Ago was Diagnosis Day

November 20, 2008

Tomorrow my “baby” girl will be five – FIVE! Two years ago, on the eve of her third birthday, we were told she has autism. Surprisingly, I wasn’t freaked out but actually a tad bit relieved. I know it may sound weird but after battling with professionals for so long, finally we [...]

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New Email Group for Autistic Youth

November 16, 2008

This came via a parent’s email group that I am on but permission to forward was granted:
A new yahoo group has just been created to be open exclusively for adolescents and teens on the autism spectrum, offering an opportunity for autistic adolescents and teens to interact in a supportive, autistic-friendly internet environment. It is sponsored [...]

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Mother Nature Network Searching for College Interns

November 14, 2008

I will be a contributing blogger for the upcoming Mother Nature Network (MNN). The founders of the company are Atlanta-based ad executive Joel Babbit and Rolling Stone keyboardist Chuck Leavell. According to the article Mother Nature becomes a dot-com that appeared in the online edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in July, the two [...]

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Bloggers Unite for Refugees

November 9, 2008

According to the United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrant Children, 14,047,300 men, women and children are forced to be refugees. From an article called A Race to the Bottom:
Which is worse—turning refugees away to face further persecution, violence, and possibly death or letting them enter a country and subjecting them to decades of [...]

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