There’s No Dancing Under The Lights For Me Tonight

OK, so I ran Boston’s Run To Remember today….it wasn’t pretty, but I ran. I have no idea what temperature it was (somewhere in the 70’s), but it felt like the race ran right along the equator…I could have sworn I was in Key West or Cancun. I offer you this, of course, as [...]

I Run On The Road, Long Before I Dance Under The Lights

We now interrupt our regularly scheduled program on National Health Insurance to bring you this special message………………..
With only a few days left before my first race, it’s appropriate to get back “on message”. At this point, we’ve almost raised $3,000, thanks to the incredibly generous donations of a lot of people. However, this is just [...]

The "Health Care Crisis" – How Big Is It?

If you’ve been following this blog, then you’re already aware of my intentions to write on the “Health Care Crisis” in America. It seems like a logical jumping off point to determine just what the crisis is so that we can then size it, find solutions, compare the solutions for advantages and disadvantages and figure [...]

The DMC Waiting List: Signs of a Broken Medical Care System?

In the course of running this fundraising campaign, I’ve been meeting with and discussing with many people what the Childrens Hospital Boston’s Developmental Medicine Center (DMC) is about and many have expressed surprise at the 9 month waiting list to be seen by a doctor. In particular, some of my friends who live outside of [...]

Is it time to turn off the Telly?

I recently came across disturbing news regarding a possible link between Autism and Television. According to this study by Cornell researchers, there is a causal link between the two in their study of five states (California, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington State).

The study found that in the Western states, autism rose more rapidly in the [...]

How to run 131 miles in 10 months

First of all, apparently no one’s done the math: If I do a Half Marathon (13.1 miles) for every $5,000 raised, I’d need to run 10 races to make my goal of $50,000, and I only have 7 races listed on my fundraising website. Truth is that there are several other races in New England [...]

A nice surprise for a change

The difficult thing about parenting an Autistic kid is that after you finish defusing his meltdowns, driving him to his therapies, shepherding him through his daily routine, negotiating with his siblings who want the same “preferential treatment”, filling out paperwork to get him accepted to new therapies/interventions/special needs camps/evaluations, scheduling all the meetings with his [...]