It has been nearly 4 months since most of us started to hear about and understand the global pandemic that is COVID-19. I marked the date in my city as 3/11, when the NBA very abruptly began cancelling games and large events, concerts and the like started disappearing off calendars. If I had known then …
Month: July 2020
Searching for Inspiration
I have been a bit behind in my posting, dear readers. Since I started this blog in April, I've come close to posting at least once, sometimes twice, a week on Tuesdays and/or Fridays. This is more consistency than I've had with most things over the past several years. Now I know more than a …
Identity and Perspective
Many discussions are happening these days in the autistic community (also LGBTQIA+, Black, Hispanic and other ethnic communities) about "identity." How do you "identify?" What are your pronouns? Do you prefer to be referred to as an "autistic person" or a "person with autism?" Human beings have always categorized and defined ourselves and others into …
Random thoughts
Work has been so busy this week that I have almost forgotten about the pandemic and the racial unrest in our country. Except that I still had to get to the grocery store this week and was shopping for my parents and my sister-in-law, and that is not "normal." Given the complexity of just getting …
