Each month I send out a challenge for people to send me a 1-2 word topic they’d like me to write a poem to and I must write all the poems in the challenge within 48 hours. People CAN’T send names (yes, everyone wants one named after their child ) but they can send other 1-2 word titles. Each sender only gets me writing one poem per poetry challenge and the more surreal the challenge, the better. Read the rest of this entry »

    I invited some of my readers to interview me on particular books which had been helpful to them.  Kathleen chose to interview me about the book Exposure Anxiety; The Invisible Cage of Involuntary Self Protection Responses.  Here’s that interview: Read the rest of this entry »

I wrote an article on object blindness and context blindness and got this reply: Read the rest of this entry »

  I’m aware of some of the insanity out there on the web… suicide via media, anorexia worship, bullying people into suicide, abuse for notoriety, predators and their patronage, living room bomb makers.  Any of this could make censorship look important.  But there’s another side.  I received this in my email: Read the rest of this entry »

  In my 30s a good friend gave me a precious piece of paper with a sentence on it.  It was about the opportunity of change and that when we fight change the most likely gift is pain.  She died shortly after that and I remembered that sentence as I mourned that loss and celebrated her spiritual presence in the beliefs, philosophies and sisterhood she had shared with me. Read the rest of this entry »

  Having worked a lot with children with autism who display visual agnosias including object blindness and context blindness Read the rest of this entry »

  here’s a video interview from my appearance on KRNV TV in Nevada this November 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

  In a crumbling world economy, it won’t matter if you have 2000 online friends if you can’t leave your room, Read the rest of this entry »

  Of my nine published books, my fourth text book, The Jumbled Jigsaw, recently came out in Japanese under the title NO JIHEISHO NO YUTAKANA SEKAI with publishing house, Akashi Shoten.  I invited Yumi Yamaoka of Akashi Shoten to ask me some questions about the book for his Japanese readers: Read the rest of this entry »

  I was asked for a paragraph about my vision of the future of autism.  Here’s what I wrote: Read the rest of this entry »