There is so much uncertainty in life. A great many people before me have said it, perhaps many more after me. The quiet successes and happy moments in the now have to be the joy we live for, because the rest is just a maybe, a hopefully…a maybe, hopefully some day. But today, this day,
As you are looking at this picture, I don’t want you to ask yourself should our son have been up there on collapsed bleachers. I don’t want you to think about whether or not he can get down safely on his own. Those are, of course, valid questions, but there’s really only one thing I
As you read this, I want you to envision if this were your reality, how the world would feel, how you would act. Imagine even something so common as foam soap could make you gag and vomit if it touched your skin, and that most everything that touched your skin caused pain no matter how
My body was humming cheerily this morning after jogging nearly 20 minutes of our outing to practice tricycle skills. I just finished my second cup of coffee, and it makes me think about how much I have to be grateful for even when things are busy. Two long years it has taken to build up
A few years ago, before the start of the pandemic, Miss Emily and I were trying to work with Tony to improve his tricycling skills during a habilitative therapy session. At that time, we were still experiencing easily a dozen or more attempts from him to run off per any type of outing. There was
I get asked a lot lately, “so how is Tony doing?” Well, it’s been a very busy couple of months. We went right from the transition out of services with his former ABA providers (and he was really heartbroken about that) into the holidays where pretty much everybody who works with us wanted to take
