Musings and What-not

My husband and I have Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma as our health insurance provider.  Now, some of you may have groaned when you read that since BCBS isn't known, by some, as being the best provider. Then again, some of you may have cheered because you absolutely love BCBS, and you wouldn't leave your health benefits in some other provider's hands, so to speak. If you haven't been living under a rock, you've probably heard about parents demanding autism benefits from health insurance companies.  Just Google "autism health insurance", and you'll get 1.5M pages to check out.

As a mother to a child with autism, I am already very careful about what my son does and does not consume.  However, there was some recent news that I found deeply disturbing. I have often said that there is more to the extreme rise in childhood disorders these days, particularly autism, than just vaccines. You already know my stance on other contributing factors such as our severe environmental changes and other toxic and unnecessary food additives.

As you all know, I was pretty busy the last 10 days globe trottin' around the web all in the name of autism . I had the pleasure of "visiting" several blogs, forums, and organizational sites to not only promote my new book, In My Mind , but also to discuss life with autism. Hosts, from all over, took the virtual book tour as an opportunity to "interview" me and learn more about me.

Update: I know this is Wordless Wednesday, but I wanted everyone to know that this picture is the logo of a great blog called, you guessed it, Autism is beautiful !

Last night, I got all serious and what-not, I mean really serious, and I thought I'd keep the tone of tonight's post... light-hearted. I'd like to tell you more about an organization I'm involved with. No, it isn't some underground movement whose dastardly plan is world domination... although, that would be pretty cool. {wink}

Disclaimer: The quotes within this post are not for the sensitive. Another week has passed, and most of it seems like a blur to me now.   I've been so busy with my virtual book tour that it almost feels like I've been online, all day, every day of this week. Regardless, I still have blogging to do that doesn't have a thing to do with my tour. So, let's get on with it... shall we? This week's Freaky Friday post goes to a young woman named Tanja (Koch) Fleischer who, much to my chagrin, waged a flaming war against autism last summer.

Folks who know me pretty well know that I've been "searching" for ways to be "at peace" with my yesterdays of many days gone by as well as "searching" for ways that will alleviate my "need-to-know-what-is-yet-to-come" ... right now. I cannot tell you how many books or CDs or podcasts or web bookmarks I have that offer up the information I seek. I also cannot tell you why I have been unable to connect with this information that is so readily available to me.