Feb 062012
 
Aspergers in Housekeeping

Wikipedia says about the novel Housekeeping, Housekeeping is a novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson. It was published in 1980, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and given the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel. In 2003, the Guardian Unlimited named Housekeeping one of the 100 greatest novels of all time, describing [...]

Jan 222012
 
Explanations destroy respect?

Back in early October of 2009, I was told explaining yourself to others can cause them to lose respect towards you. No one ever pointed that out to me before. Also back then, I finished reading Child Training Tips: What I wish I knew when my children were young by Reb Bradley. That book opened [...]

Jan 182012
 
A Dangerous Woman

Back in January of 1995, while searching for a movie to rent in a local video rental store (before I knew about Aspergers), I prayed for God to show me what He would like me to experience watching. Minutes later, I found the movie “A Dangerous Woman” on the shelf. On the back of the [...]

Mar 222011
 
The Two Validation Choices

Around the beginning of last December I wrote Five Quotes from Three Posts into Two Books. Since then, I’ve completed reading these two books introduced back then that include some things I said on my blog. I have also been in contact with both of those authors and am now ready to say more about [...]

Mar 132011
 
How to Profit from Our Afflictions

This excellent book was out of print, but thankfully Footstool Publications has made it available again! God willing, this is one of those rare books that actually can change your life! At the time of this post, it was $8 from the publisher. Others were selling used copies on amazon.com between $23.95 — $108.01. This [...]

Dec 172010
 
Exercising Discernment with Children's Books

It could have been as long ago as 1997 when I first read the thought provoking article on how books affect children that I’m sharing in this post. I did a search online today to try to find out where I first found it so that I could provide the name of the author who [...]

Dec 062010
 
Five Quotes from Three Posts into Two Books

In today’s mail, I received a signed copy of Martha Schmidtmann Dunne’s book “Wait, What Do You Mean?”: Asperger’s Tell and Show. Back in March of this year, I permitted her to quote in her book what she found on my blog. Two quotes come from the post What It’s Like Out There. The third [...]

Mar 222010
 
Devotion to Caution

The problem I have with reading Oswald Chambers is that he is too weak on doctrine to avoid being occasionally confusing. He was strong on exhortation upon specific areas of the Bible, but because he insufficiently makes comparisons of scripture with scripture, he can at times distort the big picture. As God says in 1 [...]

Feb 012010
 
Excellent Toothpaste!

I’ve been using Vicco toothpaste for some time now and I’m absolutely in love with this stuff! I must be or else my last order for this would have been less than nineteen 200 gram tubes (i.e., 8.378 pounds) for my household (of 3)! Read more about it at Vicco’s website. I stumbled upon while [...]

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