In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan and Caren Zucker. Why I picked up this book: I have an autistic cousin, and I also love learning about how the mind works in different people. What’s it about? Comprehensive history about the emergence of the autism and Aspergers diagnoses; the changing story of how …
I was honored to get an invitation from the Award-Winning Ed Tyll Show, a nationally syndicated radio program, to speak on the “Inspiring Stories from the Louisiana Flood” segment. I had a wonderful conversation with the host Ed and shared my mother’s story of having lost everything at the age of 85 when over 4 …
It’s three weeks after the Great Louisiana Flood of 2016, and I feel a little like a UFO abductee who reports that they have missing time—they can’t recall what happened to them between the time the UFO picked them up and put them back. I can relate. I think I’m a #LAflood abductee. There are …
I am happy to report that my mom, aka ‘Mrs. B,’ is now happily installed in her new digs and is once again a (temporary) resident of Baton Rouge … In the end, it’s all ‘things,’ and what matters most is that the people you care for are OK. But some of those ‘things’ carry …
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Day 3 (or is it Day 21?) of cleaning out Mom’s house after the flood. It seems as if we’ve been doing this for a while now. The majority of the pile that was in the house is now outside of the house, and the pile of stuff that is salvageable is the smallest of …
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