There are some things that I cannot do and will never do very well.  It will get better but never even remotely close to perfect.  One of those iconic weaknesses is keeping my apartment clean.  Perhaps shaping something into more of a strength is acknowledging that it...

During some of the hours spent on social media, I often come across an advertisement from someone who calls himself, “The Piano Guy.”  I have never heard of him until now, but apparently he has been teaching adults to play the piano for at least twenty years and claims...

There are certainly things you are just not supposed to do.  You are not supposed to talk about politics or religion in a controversial way.  There are topics that are clearly taboo such as humor about stereotypes and ethnicities.  There are other major “no-no’s” that...

I want to let all of you know that I am not just writing this blog entry after a drought of blog entries for quite some time.  I am cranking it out in a frantic race to beat the clock.  It has been a challenge finding a way to cram in many tasks throughout a typical Co...

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...