So I’ve decided to add a San Francisco leg to my California trip this year and I’m hoping to have one or two speaking engagements sorted out shortly. Meriah Hudson Nichols, a blogger in Berkeley (near SF) who is active in the Down syndrome community (her daughter has Ds), reprinted my Fake Work article from … Read more
I’ve been cleaning up my half-written draft posts this morning (which mostly means trashing them) and stumbled on this one. I wrote it about two and a half months before Owen died. August 6 2010: For the past 2 (or more?) years, I’ve distanced Owen and myself from any kind of institutional intervention or therapeutic … Read more
Yes or No still has all the same content, but I’ve reorganized it so that older stuff is easier to find. Categories are based on ‘type’ of post and the tags, over on the right, are by topic. The bigger the word, the more posts there are. Hope you find this easier to navigate, and … Read more
My article appears in the Winter 2012 print edition of Bloom. Text version is just below the flipbook.
I’ve had a hard time articulating a succinct message of the book, even to myself. Carsten encourages me to not worry about it, says I’m an author with a story and I can promote different aspects of the book as I see fit and no one is looking to me for an expert opinion.
I was interviewed on CBC Radio One, Ontario Today with Rita Celli today. I don’t listen to radio all that much and wasn’t familiar with the show – but a friend’s referral to the producer of Fresh Air started a chain of connections that led me to Ontario Today.