Words on Wednesday: Books

   Two time-consuming tpyes of posts that i do are the Life with Max ones and these book meanderings.  i don't do either as much as i'd like, because they require so much time & thought.  Therefore it's been far too longs since i've reported on my reading.

Reading About Temple Grandin's Childhood

  Or maybe, as the negative commenters on BN say, more about mom raising Temple.

 But isn't that the fascinating part?

Eustacia Cutler again

Love this quote. 

Hingson, Grandin, . . .and me?

Escaping the Hypnogourd

"Technology is not your friend."
                                    ~~Eustacia Cutler

  In Piers Anthony's novel Ogre Ogre, Anthony depicts treacherous gourds.
  Each gourd has a hole in it, and, if you are foolhardy enough to look into the hole, you become trapped

An Afternoon with Eustacia Cutler

  Last week, in a hurried post listing several bullet points, i mentioned being about to leave to hear Eustacia Cutler speak.

   While daughter Temple is very much a celebrity in the world of autism for the functional life she has achieved. Eustacia is only now, mainly through a film about Temple Grandin's life, becoming known as the woman behind the celebrity.

  Again, as so much i present here, there is more to say than this space would permit.  i was continually feeling as if i'd missed so much by not having seen the movie or read Eustacia's book ahead of time, as most of the audience seemed to have done. 

  Here, i will not try to present the family story, only give my impressions and key points.

Rainy Spring Day Random Thoughts

1. Max had a good dental checkup.
2. In his progress report from school, his teacher had said that, when he obsesses about going home in the middle of the day, he can get over it when she tells him that he will go home on the bus at 2:30.  So today, when he was obsessing about going home instead of to school after the appointment, i told him he would go home at 2:30 on the bus.  It short-circuited the usual loop about No, sorry, can't do that, i heard you, but no.
3. On another note, i guess i am committed to MyGuy.  i just re-signed with the drug store that he can manage my prescriptions until 2048.
4. i'm excited.  In a few minutes, my friend Sharon and i are going to hear Eustacia Cutler, aka Temple Grandin's mom, speak.