by Mir | Apr 16, 2010 | Growing
Our next group challenge at Five Full Plates is the I Dare You challenge—stuff that legends are made of. If, of course, the legends involve us all clinging to our old comfort zones, and kicking and screaming our ways towards personal growth and exploration and...
by Mir | Apr 15, 2010 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I often feel like a lot of things leave you with no choice but to cry or to laugh, and laughing is a lot more fun. Not that I always manage it, don’t get me wrong. I’ve done my share of crying. And sometimes I throw in some yelling and swearing, just for...
by Mir | Apr 14, 2010 | Job? Huh?, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I’ve been thinking, lately, about putting a new category in here specifically to tag Asperger’s-related stuff. Of course—being me, and Monkey being Monkey—so far all of my category title ideas run to things like: Planet Rigid and the Unbendable...
by Mir | Apr 13, 2010 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
So waayyyyyyyy back whenever it was that I figured out that actually, hey, I appear to have some sort of wheat allergy, I gave up wheat and my lifetime of acne cleared up and everybody cheered. (And here, by “everybody” I mostly mean “I.”)...
by Mir | Apr 12, 2010 | I'm dating the television, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
We have been recording Life on the DVR and then watching it as a family on weekends, as time allows, and everyone has really been enjoying it. What’s not to like about slow-motion views of really long, slimy tongues shooting out to grab bugs, for example? Or...
