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  • Life is new when you are new

    Life is new when you are new

    I think in giving advice to young people, too often we overlook that they are experiencing things for the first time.  From love to heartbreak, we apply our view to how they might feel.   Instead we should validate their feelings. They are strong and teenagers are dramatic because if feels overwhelming. What we can…

  • Are Men Pigs

    Are Men Pigs

    Are men pigs?       In some ways. But society also teaches us.  Perhaps some men are born assholes.  Other achieve asshole status, and some have it thrust upon them. How is society set up? First of all, it is set up for woman to be objects and then teaches them its best to keep quiet. Also,…

  • Don’t be a hater Spectrum

    That Spectrum commercial where the woman gets cable and her husband turns out to be a dish employee, shows the dish guy as fat slovenly .  It correlates stupid with dish, but also with obese people. Notice that the spectrum cable guy is slim and cleancut.  He has his shirt tucked in.  Spectrum wants us…

  • Stories of Grandpa

    Stories of Grandpa

    Saturday, dad and I traded songs via youtube.  He showed me who put the overalls in mrs ___ chowder.  We also listened to Nellie Jack and my blue heaven.  Dad talked about how his dad would come out of his bedroom dancing and singing these two songs.  My dad was emotional as he remembered this.…

  • Adult Supervision

      John Elder Robison, author of Look Me In The Eyes, talked about his Asperger’s syndrome going un-diagnosed until adulthood. A great book and in it he talks about the adults being the only ones that interacted with him due to his social skills. People with autism can be challenging. However, as adults, we can…