A student in Singapore, Asvin Kaur, asked me 5 questions and has agreed you can all benefit from their answers. Here they are: Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

  Yesterday I decided to be helpful and it almost killed me. Read the rest of this entry »

Another GF/CF low salicylate recipe this time from my fab husband Chris Samuel! Read the rest of this entry »

Barbara Smith M.S., OTR/L ( http://www.barbarasmithoccupationaltherapist.com ) works with many children on the autism spectrum in the area of hippotherapy (not hippos, but horses). This involves occupational therapy through interaction with horses and horse riding to help children achieve goals such as improved balance, coordination or communication skills to tell the horse to “go” and “whoa”. Barbara had her own set of questions for me, so here’s her interview: Read the rest of this entry »

Our TV here in Australia has just had advertisements urging everyone to go vegetarian. That may not sound so strange but we, like the US, are a meat producing nation. Read the rest of this entry »

Paul Swann is a Commissioning & Planning Officer with Department of Adult Social Care at Wrexham County Borough Council in Wales, UK. In the run up to an evening lecture I’m doing in Wrexham on Tuesday 9th Sept 2008, I offered Paul to set me 5 questions for an email interview. He did a wonderful job, setting in depth questions as good as any of the 100 or so journalists who’ve interviewed me over the last 20 years. Here’s out interview: Read the rest of this entry »

My parents were underclass party people in the 60s and 70s, a criminal family with colorful friends: armed robbers, gun dealers, celebrities and entertainers and crooked cops. Bravado, power, endangerment, sadism, mockery, and at the very least laughing things off, came as standard. Read the rest of this entry »

Since 1991, Nobody Nowhere was translated into over 20 languages worldwide and progressively some of my 8 further books have also been translated into other languages too. I’ve directly sold around 1 million new copies of what has ultimately become my 9 published books. But my books have been read far more broadly than that. Read the rest of this entry »

Hi Donna, I wonder if you could answer a quick question. Do auties experience feelings of love? If so can they experience trauma through loss of a person, attachment or object? Many thanks.

Here’s my reply: Read the rest of this entry »