Tomorrow is my last day at Autism Vox—-this blog was nominated for the Best Medical/Heatlh Issues Blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards and voting began on January 5th. And hey, if I’d have known that would have happened…….no, it’s been a good change over at Change.org where I’ve been blogging, though I confess to be still adjusting. If you’re so inclined, a vote for my old blog-home here is greatly appreciated. I will be gone from here by the time voting is over, but this blog will continue. [Read more]

Thanks very, very, very much to everyone for your kind words about the big change. It is definitely a change and I’m still adjusting—-I’m very interested in knowing what you think. Thanks to all those—-Kev, Emily, Mike, Lisa—who’ve given the new autism blog a shout-out It’s been fabulous blogging with Dora and I’m very excited to be part of the Change.org community. There’s been a couple of questions about what will happen to this blog: While I won’t be writing it after this week, someone (I’m not sure who) will be taking it over. As far as I know, the archives will remain on the web. If you’ve other questions, or if there’s a particular post that you’d like... [Read more]

A long time ago (definitely “before Charlie,” which is “bC” to Jim and me) “someone” (she writes poetry) wrote this to me: Poetry is life; it should change everything around it. Do only what changes you. The lines were written at the end of a letter regarding a topic that was, at that point in time (I was about half as old as I am as I write this), of total everything significance to my life: What should I study in graduate school? I was a Classics major in college and, finding the sustained study of Latin and ancient Greek intellectually intriguing, albeit a little wearying on the soul, I was drawn to another academic discipline, Comparative Literature; I had hopes of studying something called “literary... [Read more]

Happy 2009! We’re leaving tonight on the red-eye to go back from the Bay Area to New Jersey so, in the interest of being able to spend more time in the California sunshine with my guys and my parents, and since it is, indeed, 2009, a few more highlights from 2008. August means one thing in my household—-two weeks at the beach, at the Jersey Shore. Not surprisingly, it was still impossible to avoid talk about vaccines. A new clinical trial of the GFCF diet was announced. While people have strong disagreements about the “right” of parents to vaccinate or not, everyone agreed that the use of “retard” in the movie Tropic Thunder was unncessary. Charlie started middle school in September and, by October, he was... [Read more]

Starting January 5, 2009, voting for the 2008 Weblog Awards begins—–and this blog, which I’ve been writing since April of 2006, is among the finalists for best Medical/Health Issues Blog. I’m included in some good company, including Respectful Insolence—-The Differetial—-Junk Food Science—-Stirrup Queen. Thanks to everyone for reading Autism Vox, writing in, sounding off—-it’s been a great year and onward into a new one (very very soon!). [Read more]