Yesterday afternoon, while at school pick up, a mother tracked me down… “I’ve been meaning to tell you,” she started, “your blue hair…” She went on to tell me how she had been sitting watching a group of kids. The topic of Brooke’s dad with the blue hair spontaneously came up in conversation which started [...]
Archive for October, 2011
It’s Working
Posted in other, Uncategorized, tagged autism, autism awareness, blue hair, change, conversation, light it up blue on October 29, 2011 | 10 Comments »
RIP Dear Friend
Posted in Odd Ball, other, Uncategorized, tagged mourning, RIP, running, treadmill on October 28, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Last night was the first night I really missed him. May he rest in peace. No, no, no. Nobody has died, not yet anyway. I am in mourning not for a person nor pet. No, I am in mourning for my treadmill. After many years of service, the last three being fairly intense, my familiar [...]
…but I do believe in Angels
Posted in other, Uncategorized, tagged angels, autism, God, Godspell, Thank you on October 27, 2011 | 9 Comments »
I cannot put into words how overwhelmed and supported I felt from your responses (both on and off line) to my #FAIL post. Whether it was from those who felt the same way as me, those who had made their way back to God or those who had never left Him/Her, I felt the love [...]
Therapeutic
Posted in health, tagged running, therapy on October 23, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Not all is solved. Not all is better. The big guy upstairs is still on my shitlist. The same problems that were there before are still there. But MAN does a nice, hard 8 mile run go a long way toward making one feel better. I had planned on a short 4-miler, in part because [...]
#FAIL
Posted in other, Uncategorized, tagged #FAIL, God on October 21, 2011 | 42 Comments »
Dear Lord, If You did this to test me, then I believe I have failed. Not because I have given up on my daughter. Not because I have given up on doing what is right. Unlike You, I will never stop doing those things. I failed because I have given up on You as an [...]
You can’t treat it with surgery. Or chemo. Or a shot of penicillin. Or Bubbie’s chicken noodle soup. Or a week in bed. It’s not always visible…until the inevitable meltdown. There is no “cure”. There are therapies and strategies to help make the world more navigable, but Brooke will always “have” autism. Maybe someday she [...]
Elevator Pitch
Posted in other, Uncategorized, tagged autism, autism awa, blue, blue hair, elevator pitch on October 17, 2011 | 8 Comments »
So the blue hair thing is already paying dividends. Friends, neighbors, acquaintances, strangers; children, adults – all of them are asking, “what’s up with the blue hair?” I thought this would be easy – you ask me about autism and I can go on for a good 30 minutes, ranging on topics from awareness to [...]
The Dye Job
Posted in Odd Ball, other, Uncategorized, tagged autism awareness, blue, dyeing hair, light it up blue on October 14, 2011 | 20 Comments »
Yesterday, if you were on the Twitter and following me (@luau), you would have seen the stream of pictures that follow. The quick story for those new here is that I put it out there in cyber-space a couple of weeks ago that if we were able to help my wife Jess reach her goal [...]
Going Blue Live
Posted in Odd Ball, other, Uncategorized, tagged autism, autism awareness, blue hair, brown hair, dye job, light it up blue on October 12, 2011 | 4 Comments »
So tomorrow is the day. Tomorrow morning at 10:45 I will, for the first time in my life be dying my hair – not to wash away the gray (it’s there by the way), not to add highlights (a little too Metro’ for me anyway), but to go blue, specifically Autism Speaks Blue to promote [...]
Running with Regret
Posted in other, tagged regret, running on October 11, 2011 | 18 Comments »
It’s days like yesterday that I run with a certain feeling of regret – the pseudo-holidays – the days where the kids are home from school but Jess has to go to work. I despise them. *** I finished at the top of my class at what was probably THE top high school (public or [...]
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