Pipecleaner Dreams

I know that I have written several times in the past about how annoyed I get when people stare at my children. I’m not going to do that to...

Most of my readers already know how I feel about pity. Not much angers me more than people who feel sorry for my children, or anyone for t...

Back in 2007, I wrote about Ashley a young girl from Seattle who had decisions made for her that forever altered the course of her life. The...

Why are we failing as a society, a society in which a child in special education is set on fire by regular education students at his/her sch...

And I thought school transportation was bad..... This past Saturday I hosted a get-together of professionals who are interested in advocatin...

Here we go again - yet another movie and movie star who feels it necessary to make a joke at the expense of people with intellectual disabil...

I got the call from the school nurse at 2:15pm Friday. They told me Jessica was on her way to the hospital in an ambulance. And here's...

OK, I'm about to step back on my soapbox again. Let's talk a bit about the sexist attitudes of some restaurant owners and in additi...

MALPRACTICE - failure of a professional person, as a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehensible ignorance or negl...

Ahh, high school. Those years when teachers and staff try to mold young minds for the challenges of the future. A time of showing the diff...

It’s the end of the first week back at school, and for the three of my children still in the public school system, almost everything has gon...

I really hadn’t planned on going to see the new movie with Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman titled, “The Change-Up.” To me it looks like j...

I checked Facebook Sunday night just before going to bed and was surprised to see a status update for one of our local news stations. It ...

Do you think I can't see the disgusted look on your face? Or the impatient drumming of your fingers on the steering wheel? Do you really...

It's been a crazy few days for Ronnie. Ronnie has a friend (a girl) - I'll call her Friend Girl for this post - who is rather troub...

Well, at least the Academy of Arts and Sciences haven't completely lost their minds. I was appalled when I first heard that the TV show...

This is turning into a banner year here in this glorious Commonwealth in which I live. First, the state's budget is in dire straits - t...

This article below appeared in the Mansfield News Mirror, a Texas newspaper. Before reading it, consider the definition of 'affliction...

I’ve never been a Sarah Palin fan, but I’ve got to applaud her for calling out The Obama Administration’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel (pic...

My home state, Virginia, has a rotten record of providing services to people with disabilities. Virginia is consistently ranked between 40t...