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Autism Podcaster
For those of you who have asked, you can listen to my podcast right here! https://open.spotify.com/show/31JTvp8KgNyzV4uwLt4G1D?si=kbK5kiRzSH6hwPp1F71dxA
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It’s not goodbye.
I had a goal three and a half years ago. I wanted to reach an audience beyond my family and friends. I had aspirations of Autism being accepted on a global scale. That strangers would welcome Sawyer with open arms. To a very large degree, I felt progress. With a goal comes numbers. I thought […]
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Tales of the 3rd Grade Something
So there I was sharing a story about an author who took 15 years to get his work published with my 5th grade students. 15 years. That’s nearly the length I’ve attained in years teaching. At that moment, I really didn’t think much more about it. It just came up in conversation about an author […]
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Back In The Game
6 weeks. What does that mean? For our family, it’s the one year mark of the birth of our twins. One boy named Simon. And one girl named Rosie, To say that having two children at once has been an adventure has been an understatement. However, it’s also meant a year of growth, chaos, and […]
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A True Loss
I saw the clock each hour many of times since October. That’s when my wife Kellie and I had our 4th and 5th child. That is when our family in theory became complete. The near 9 months since then has been a grind. I knew it would be. You don’t have 5 children, 2 of […]
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Hear the Hate, Spread the Awareness
Off the bus she ran. Tears down her eyes and her face flushed red. One of her friends said the word “retarded” a few times. In what context it wasn’t clear but she heard it. It hurt her feelings that it was said. She had questions on why the word still exists. The child who […]
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Dear 8
Dear Sawyer, I can tell you what you don’t remember. Like the time you were a baby and slammed your feet on your mattress that echoed through the ceiling in our kitchen. My look of puzzlement would lead to a bout of laughter. It was always expected during the morning hours. I thought it was […]
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Eyes Wide Open
I start. I stop. I stop. I start. This has been my dance over the past two months. I place my fingers on the keyboard and I blurt out a thought. As I stare at it for a few minutes, I delete it. I’m like a toddler tracing letters in shaving cream. It is real […]
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I’m back
My life has morphed into the second season of Lost. This was when Desmond would be frantic if he didn’t enter the numbers into the computer every 108 minutes. His time couldn’t be wasted and his exhausted soul couldn’t be broken. While home, our lives run on 3 hour intervals. This has been the around […]
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Happy birthday
In true Rubin family form, we welcomed our babies into the world in loving chaos a week ago. A scheduled C section for my wife, Kellie, went as expected. It was unpredictable, exhausting, nauseating, and well worth it. Easy for me to say as I was right by her side rather than living the battle. […]
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