Saturday, June 14, 2014

Sustainable Saturday - The Journey of 1000 Miles

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Last year I blogged about the possible decline and fall of the Binghamton, New York downtown farmer's market. Venders were leaving. An...
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Friday, June 13, 2014

Physical Fitness and An Adult With Autism

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Every year, our local "Y" sponsors something called the Corporate Challenge, where people from different companies in our area co...
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Thursday, June 12, 2014

No Cats Were Harmed in the Posting of This Post

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In Tuesday's blog post, I blogged about how my father in law died suddenly, in his sleep, on Christmas night, 1998.  "B", my...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Spring Things- Urban Wildflowers

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(Before I begin - for those worried about the cat in yesterday's post - no, he was not injured, and lived to an old age).  I will tel...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

The Cat Did It - The Start of a Journey

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"The cat killed him", my brother in law, "B", insisted.  We couldn't convince him otherwise. "B", who, a...
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Monday, June 9, 2014

Kool Aid Irises

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They are nearly done in my upstate New York garden. But these irises have a little bit of a history about them, and they may even have more ...
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Sunday, June 8, 2014

Rolling on the Floor Not Laughing

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I've realized that I've started to take you, my faithful blog readers, on a journey through an experience called "autism" ...
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Saturday, June 7, 2014

Sustainable Saturday - To Those Who Hate

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Who cares for the members of our society: the elderly, the frailest, or those who can not care for themselves due to physical or mental disa...
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Friday, June 6, 2014

Still in Hiding

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Imagine....being as young as two years old.  For reasons you don't understand, you are being separated from your parents. You are sent...
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Thursday, June 5, 2014

But Will He Press the Button?

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It was just a somewhat typical day, living three hours away from a mother in law in her 80's and her son with autism, my brother in law ...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Spring Things - Lilacs and Roses

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Today would have been my mother's birthday.  She passed when I was 12, back in the mid 1960's. One thing I associate with her is t...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Another Change in Direction

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We are feeling our way, lost in an unknown land, without a guide, as the guardianship process for my brother in law with autism crawls alon...
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Monday, June 2, 2014

Meet A Statistic

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Statistics can be so impersonal. You can read, for example "the rate of autism is one in 68 children in the United States ".  Or...
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Sunday, June 1, 2014

A Fortieth Wedding Anniversary and Continuing an Autism Journey

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Autism has been in my life for almost forty-four years. It entered my life almost to the day I started to date my spouse.  It entered quietl...
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Saturday, May 31, 2014

Sustainable Saturday - Urban Eggs?

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This, with some edits, was first posted August 24, 2010. I am preparing for a month long blog challenge, during which I am going to explore ...
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Friday, May 30, 2014

The Lamp in the Window

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They thought they could recover after an April 30 fire. They couldn't.  The building was judged to be in imminant danger of collapse. ...
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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Best of AM - Mail Order Chickens

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This post, with some edits and additions, was first posted in August, 2010. I never realized that Iowa is the #1 egg producer in the ...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Spring Things - Speeding Through May

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What a difference a month (give or take a couple of days) makes in upstate New York.  Forsythia, May 1. Bradford Pears, May 7. Lil...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Best of AM - The Little kitchen of Horrors

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This is a true story, first posted in 2011.  I've edited it slightly.  This post is without photos for a reason, as you will soon re...
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Monday, May 26, 2014

A Scrap of Silk and a Virtual Blood Chit

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As the daughter of someone who served in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II, this s tory of a scrap of silk was of interest on a  ...
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