Musings and What-not

Wishing you and yours a wonderful and safe holiday season! Or if you don't celebrate the holidays, just, ummm, wishing you well!  :D

I am humbled... and speechless by the author's review. I received my copy of Adonya Wong 's book In My Mind...The World through the Eyes of Autism in the mail today. The timing couldn't have been better. A rainy day, one child inside... Read on and you'll understand why.

Is this post about autism?  No, it isn't.  Then again, I don't always blog about autism.  Tonight's post is about another topic of which I am very passionate about.  I'm an advocate... what can I say? I like chocolate, but I don't love chocolate.   I know a lot of people who can't live without it; I think they call refer to themselves as "chocoholics". Most of us don't always pay attention to how that tasty bar or little kiss came to be.  We don't normally put a whole lot of thought into it because we don't want to ruin the moment . Some of you may only look as far as the label and that may very well be the extent of your concern. Then again, some of you may look beyond it, and see the dirty little secret that most chocolate sellers don't want you to know. Man!  I feel like this post is about to turn into the sequel of The Da Vinci Code ©. ;) The following is an excerpt from a Global Exchange article. In 2000, a report by the US Stat...

Yesterday, my Twitter friends learned of my decision to donate my tresses to Locks of Love , a public nonprofit that "helps disadvantaged children with medical hair loss." This is a pic of my pony sans product (meaning my hair is chemical-free and store-bought product-free).  No sense being natural if you're going to put crap in your locks, right???. I didn't want to get cold feet, so, ummm, here's a picture of it after I cut it off today. Now, I know some you are out there laughin' at my forehead or fivehead (as it was so graciously referred to during my youth) AND spottin' your britches over my robe! {y'all are so messed up for laughin' at me! :-)} In between gasping for air, please remember that this was all for a worthy cause and my after photo should not be held against me.  {wink} Man!  The stylist is going to be ripped to shreds when I walk in and ask her to "fix" the rest of my head!  I still have almost 8 inches of hair on th...

This slide show does an amazing job explaining what took place on December 16, 2008!  I was proud to be part of it!  It was an amazing day! Thank you, PF Anderson, for putting this together!  Bravo! The rest of you... enjoy! [slideshare id=855621&doc=asdautismtwitterday-1229572866190311-2&w=425]