I lost a friend yesterday. He was the best friend I had in my neighborhood. I will miss him terribly. His name was Toby and he was my neighbors' Golden Retriever. I realize that it likely says something about me that my best friend in the neighborhood was a dog and not a person. I [...]
Tag: love
Pass the sugar, Daddy.
I cannot be alone in thinking that Crystal Harris (Hugh Hefner's new bride) is a sugar addict. And what better place to find a daddy to provide sugar than Hugh Hefner? He has got to be one of the the best sugar daddies of all time. But perhaps he is more appropriately labeled a sugar [...]
Cheating is a sad and awkward dance…
I never cease to be amazed at how blinding affairs can be to folks' sensibilities. Often colleagues and coworkers can see the telltale signs even as the two with their heads in the clouds feel like they are acting as covert as Russian double agents. Yet those in the midst of an affair become detached [...]
If you meet one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.
There is a saying often uttered in the autism community, "If you meet one person with autism, you've met one person with autism." Autism is not a definitional box filled with discrete behavioral, neurological, or physical descriptors - it is a spectrum filled with ranges of color and shading, nuances upon nuances, and palettes that [...]
61
I saw a story on television the other night about a woman who acted as a surrogate for her daughter and her son-in-law. The woman was 61 years old. 61 and pregnant - wow, what a great mama. You know she loves her daughter - being a surrogate at age 61 doesn't just say I love [...]
Equally but uniquely…
I have four children...four very different children. Each child has his or her own unique gifts, strengths, and challenges. Each child is loved equally but uniquely. This is how I think it should be. This is on my mind as I know a couple of families who have treated their children dramatically different. They have [...]
Positive vibes indeed.
Whenever I travel, I try and regularly check the daily news in The Forum online (InForum). Glancing over the InForum site daily is the way that I stay grounded in the sensibilities of home. Today I read a heartwarming story of a girl's commitment to her blind horse. The horse is a 23-year-old show horse registered as [...]
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