[This six-part series is adapted from a talk I gave at the Autism and the Pursuit of Happiness Conference at…
A Moment’s Bliss: An Interview with Eckhart Tolle (complete interview)
I am pleased to present my complete interview with Eckhart Tolle. A fair warning for your time, as well as…
A Note from Ray
I have been a poor blogger lately — “poor Ray,” a friend recently said — posting hardly at all. Today…
Memorial Day 2015: War and American Freedom
Memorial Day weekend 2015: I keep seeing signs in the community and posts in the social media community thanking those…
Autism and the Pursuit of Happiness
I’m very pleased to be presenting at the second annual Autism and the Pursuit of Happiness conference on Saturday, February…
Truth and Compass: Universality and Difference Inside and Outside of Autism
There’s this meme among some autism and special-needs parents and groups, shared on social-media graphics and bumper stickers, in fundraising…
Autism 101: Hating Your Autistic Child
Full title and full disclosure: Autism 101: hating your autistic child … and teaching her or him self-loathing. Twice in…
Friendship, birthdays, and brownies
My birthday is tomorrow. This morning I was chatting on an app about it with a friend in India. It…
A Lot of Gratitude
Brita Adkinson, a Swedish woman and journalist, worked for and with me for several years at New Age Retailer, a…
Anti-Autism Prejudice: Media, Parents, and Damaged Children
My son, Nicholas, was featured on the cover of the major western North Carolina weekly — the Mountain Xpress —…
