On the Appalachian Trail back in 2005 there were numerous times when I wondered why I chose to do this to myself.  There were moments of intense physical comfort, anger, frustration, and the sensation that it would go on forever.  Nobody was forcing me to complete this...

Yesterday I had the privilege of participating in the first annual Everything Autism &… Fair & Conference event organized by the Atlas School for Autism event held at the glamorous Pennsylvania Hotel in New York City.  The three dots in the title of the conference are...

As a child, I always looked forward to sick days as though my body chose to let its guard down.  The relentless white blood cells chose to take a vacation or could not compete with the overwhelming flood of pathogens.  That was fine with me during a childhood that was...

(I will explain why there is a photograph of my apartment laundry card in a little while.  But let me first give you some background information leading up to the random, banal photograph!)

We have heard of the expression, “Do not sweat the small stuff.”  It is a f...

It is a cliché, albeit a true one that one never knows what the next day is going to bring.  We have no idea who is going to enter our lives and stay around for a while.  This turned out to be the case during my most recent trip to Wildwood Crest, NJ when I made an imp...

I have had the privilege of meeting so many talented and intelligent young people who are on the autism spectrum since beginning my career as a published author and motivational speaker back in April 2010.  Plenty of them were pre-teenagers when our universes first col...

There is a movie called, “Serendipity” and a line that stands out above all other cinematic lines. I think it states, “When destiny has a sense of humor…we call that serendipity.”  It was serendipitous that I decided it was necessary to attend the Jeff Kinney “Diary of...

There are some things in my life with Asperger’s syndrome that have changed dramatically for the better and other realities that have not become much easier.  I am very good at pretending that I am someone else in the sensitive environment in which I work.  We all must...

I am thankful for the events that have taken place over the past week.  At long last, I am making very slow, but noticeable, progress on fixing the horrible condition of my apartment in Guilderland, NY.  It was in rough shape with things all over the floor.  The task i...

So much of our imaginations are tied up in the gemstones from those days of yore and yesteryear.  Hopefully some of our creativity comes from literature.  But let’s face it.  Unless we were child prodigies chained to piano lessons all day long, a decent amount of our i...