Social Group.. Support Group… awww let’s just hang out
Jose and his other girl, Kit No plan, no formal discussion, no agenda… just food…seems to be a fairly successful recipe for a get-together so far. We had our third ‘hang-out’ day today at Juniper...
View ArticleBossy Big Sister Live-in Companion
Being the live-in companion to a bunch of guys young enough to be my sons, I had to make a concerted effort to not be the ‘mom’ of the house. We came up with the ‘bossy big sister’ role instead. It...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship and Autism: goats, sunflowers and giant blankets
Cashmere Cashmere everywhere…on our clothes and in our hair….. It’s almost time! Yesterday, clumps of cashmere came off into our hands as we reached out for Johnny CASHmere while feeding the barn...
View ArticleAutism and agricultural communities: a reason for keeping it small
So much talk this week about agricultural communities and autism… the autism blogs and listservs are buzzing about the FRED conference that just happened in California (Farms and Ranches Enabling...
View ArticleHolidays and autism: free-to-be age inappropriate
Yesterday morning, Brent arrived at the main house at 700 AM to search for hidden easter eggs, something he has done with our family for 25 years. He wore bunny ears, and found every egg but one...
View ArticleVacation at the Beach, Autism Style
The Juniper Hill Gang went to Sea Isle New Jersey for a week at the beach courtesy of the A.A.L.I.V.E. organization, and our friend ‘Dude I’m an Aspie’, Matt Friedman joined us and wrote about it in...
View ArticleJuniper Hill two years later.. a reflection on what we’ve become
Shelly, the crayfish Happy Anniversary to us! Tomorrow is Ray’s 27th birthday… and it is this weekend that he moved into the green house on Juniper Hill, just two years ago. He moved in with a blue...
View ArticleThe Pursuit of Happiness: Juniper Hill Style
Ray was gone for three hours in the adjacent woods one afternoon this week. Three hours! I was just about to go looking for him when he came trudging Ray’s pond in bloom, 2013 back in rubber boots,...
View ArticleAutism and the Food Police… The right to eat too many doughnuts (or cream...
Oh MAN! Someone just broke open the new box of cream puffs that were defrosting for dessert and ate 10 of them! And now there are 5 more of us who are going to have to split the remaining 15…...
View ArticleAn open letter to ASHA advocating for the right to a communication method of...
Recently the American Speech- Language-Hearing Association put forth the following statement: “It is the position of ASHA that the use of RPM is not recommended. Furthermore, information obtained...
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