The Mystery Spot

Two weeks ago, I posted this about putting my son on an anti-psychotic medication. Wow, that's a sentence you never want to write as ...

The Scene: A child's bedroom, after dinner. The child and his father are seated on the floor. Father is opening a container of Legos. ...

Finally had the time to watch this zeitgeist video segment last night. My son was on the couch, lying down and working on falling asleep. I ...

So many seem to do everything to cling to their childhood. I think my problem (or one of) is that I wanted to distance myself as far away fr...

I am very self conscious about my guitar playing. I think I suck and there is very little that would convince me otherwise. When my son was ...

Last week I took the Jeopardy online test. Initially I did well, better than some of the other tests I've taken. Then I saw the replay o...

Traveled last weekend and came back with a sickness that has been kicking my ass this week. All the humidity on Long Island combined with go...

My son has been sick with a cold all weekend and did not go to school today. When I picked him up from his mother's he looked tired, and...

My son is somewhere between 57-58 pounds now. I weigh him on the scales at the pool every couple of weeks. He is slowing gaining weight, def...

If I insist my son eat, sleep, use the toilet and try to communicate with the world in a meaningful manner I have to be nothing less than a ...

It was a holiday yesterday so my son was off school. I took the day off to look after him and decided that we would have a father/son outing...

My son is not happy when his mother is not there to pick him up off the bus. That means he's staying with me, and stepmom, and he does n...

There's always something new when you have an autistic kid. A new word you did not think he knew comes out of his mouth. A task he has n...

Still unmotivated. Pointing the finger at no one but myself. It's humid out there, but that's only an excuse. Did a bit of Arts Fest...

He has had very little fear of the water since he was first in the pool, over two years now. Flotation devices were quickly discarded as his...

Been trying to find apps for my son on the Ipad to use that do not involve him watching the same Dora the Explorer trailer over and over. A ...

I've survived another year of travel around the sun. It's Father's Day too, which happens every few years. I read about kids get...

Not sure if it was the change in temperatures, the time change, an illness or something he's not saying but for the past several weeks m...

In the post Father's Day wake this article struck home on a few points. Most of the author's experiences are not like my own, but t...

My wife's friend Mary Jessica interviewed me, and other fathers in this article. As I get older, my tolerance for hot weather decreases...