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 [...]
The 13 minute video about democracy at the end of this post, on The Story of Your Enslavement,¹ claims to say how we can finally become free from enslavement. It is correct in saying how we are enslaved. It does happen because of the fear of future loss and death. Most definitely, the fear of [...]
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 [...]
The title, “Brain Games of the Invisible Gorilla among Animals in Translation,” sums up some of the major sources of information I’ve added to other bits I’ve accumulated off the internet. Brain Games is a 3-Part/3-Hour National Geographic Channel episode that’s been on television; possibly to air for the last time on the morning of [...]
Empathy is the ability to understand how someone feels because you can imagine what it is like to be them. Just because you can imagine what it is like to be them, doesn’t mean you will always want to. Most children can be coerced to apologize. Even Asperger’s children, if they’re growing up in a [...]
It’s a Happy Halloween for me today. I got a sweet treat to digest that won’t harm my teeth or fill me with empty calories. I’m tickled pink to discover that Christine Lahti and Matt Damon are Finnish Americans. I’m a Finn-American too — one well capable of making Finnish Pulla, basking in a traditional [...]
Yes, this David Schoonmaker is the one I’m married to. There are others, such as the one who is the acting editor of American Scientist magazine and another who is the author of building birdhouses, bird feeders, whirligigs, and weather vanes. My husband happens to be a carpenter, but he is not your ordinary builder. [...]
Look to the stars? Why? Are they God? No, but unfortunately there are too many people who think so. If that wasn’t the case, there wouldn’t be these websites telling who donates their excess financial wealth towards Autism Speaks and Cure Autism Now. Did I once say I don’t want to get involved in politics? [...]
Jerry Newport and Mary Meinel-Newport wrote about their lives in Mozart and the Whale. Hollywood made their version with the same title. Jerry and Mary are Asperger’s syndrome people who met, fell in love, and got married . . . twice (both times with each other). The Newports came to my area for the Going [...]
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