this is a freeze frame from a video I shot of Max playing outside. One of the words I struggle with most when it comes to describing any ...

I'm not much of a group exercise person.  I prefer to grunt and sweat and curse by my lonesome.  Over the course of my life, I have atte...

This is a special request calling on all those who can put aside some time to attend a hearing at the College of Psychologists in Toronto on...

A few years ago I created a video about Max called "The Face of Autism: It May Surprise You". This is the update!

my workout set up - Tony on the laptop with the sun lamp my mom gave me blasting! Officially speaking, Tony Horton and P90X entered my ...

The thing I love most about my friends is that when I arrived 45 minutes late to our girls night out/birthday celebration on Saturday night,...

This may come as a surprise, but I had no idea how much Max's therapy bills would total for 2010. I figured it was a lot, based solely o...

With everything going on in the world right now, it is impossible not to feel incredibly blessed. Certainly life is not perfect (by a long s...

 photo credit: bigfoto.com  As we take in the images of the tsunami washing over the coast of Japan, it seems abstract. This could not...

When you have a child with Autism, going out on "dates" becomes an infrequent event. There are only a few people that Max is comf...

Last month I blogged about a particular challenge we are working through with Max, which causes a lot of stress in our home. It's a sub...

tail end of dreary winter + rain and gloom of early spring = 1 depressed katrina. This is the the toughest part of the year for me.  The sk...

Three more weeks of P90X to go! I'd be a liar if I said at this point I'm still jumping up and down every day to workout because ...

This February I had the opportunity to visit Disney World for a few days without my kids. Because I view everything through the lens of ...

There isn't a day that goes by that doesn't test your inner metal when you have a child with Autism. It may be something relatively ...

Depression and I go way back, but it wasn’t until college that I started taking medication to treat it. Thus began my ride on the prescripti...

Retard.   It's one helluva word.  It no longer means "to be delayed" or "to make slow; delay  the   development or ...

I paid my doctor a visit yesterday (yes – the super attractive one who finds me terribly funny and thinks I’m lovely ). The reason for my...