Running for Autism

I am participating in the 2012 Wordcount Blogathon, which means one post every day for the month of May. This time tomorrow, I will be about an hour and a quarter into the half-marathon I’ve been training for since February. If things go according to plan, I will have a little less than 10km to go.

I am participating in the 2012 Wordcount Blogathon, which means one post every day for the month of May. Yesterday, an emoticon on a website made me feel guilty. When I say “emoticon”, I mean those little faces that you put into emails to express how you feel about something. Like this: And when I s

I am participating in the 2012 Wordcount Blogathon, which means one post every day for the month of May. When my kids were little – well, littler than they are now – they went to a great daycare centre a few minutes’ walk away from our house. When the weather was nice, the kids would be [...]

I am participating in the 2012 Wordcount Blogathon, which means one post every day for the month of May. When I first started this blog, I had no idea what I was doing. I had a vague notion that I wanted to write, but I didn’t know how to put a blog together. I had a [...]

I am participating in the 2012 Wordcount Blogathon, which means one post every day for the month of May. The last time I saw a movie with my husband – a real movie, in a movie theatre, with a giant bucket of popcorn to share – my firstborn son was about a year old. Because we [...]

I am participating in the 2012 Wordcount Blogathon, which means one post every day for the month of May. I am currently reading a running book that has a lot of great advice in it. Since I will be posting a review of the book in the near future, I will not give away too much [...]

I am participating in the 2012 Wordcount Blogathon, which means one post every day for the month of May. When James was about four, he got himself an imaginary friend. The friend’s name is Albert and his age varies from 3 to 12, depending on the day. According to James’ descriptions, Albert is a yel

I am participating in the 2012 Wordcount Blogathon, which means one post every day for the month of May. This last week has been fraught with stress. Along with almost everybody in my department, I spent the first half of the week waiting to hear whether I still had a job. I work for a large [...]

I am participating in the 2012 Wordcount Blogathon, which means one post every day for the month of May. Today’s post is also a part of the 2012 Fitness & Health Bloggers Conference Blogger Challenge, in which bloggers are invited to write about an aspect of women’s health. At the time my older son

I am participating in the 2012 Wordcount Blogathon, which means one post every day for the month of May. Every night, I give my older son George a piggy-back ride to bed. These days are numbered, of course. George is almost nine and he’s all arms and legs. Someday soon, he will too tall and heavy [.