Darkness and Light…


Now that we have officially started the year 2019, New Year’s resolutions are being made. I personally prefer to call them goals rather than resolutions. No one sticks to their resolutions, but goals can be attained. My main focus this year will be on bringing joy back into my life. Lately especially, it feels as…
One of Ryland’s therapies is ABA. ABA stands for Applied Behavior Analysis. A search on the internet will bring up several articles questioning the ethics of ABA therapy arguing that its core principles are cruel. We have not had that experience. Not to say that unkindness doesn’t happen, there is certainly room for it, but…
I have only been arrested once in my entire life. Trust me – it probably should have happened a lot more, but I had an innocent face and was never caught. When O’Doul’s first came out, it was strongly advertised as a non-alcoholic beer. At the time of my arrest, I was not drinking. I…
People with mental health issues are all around you and you may never really know it. It’s hard to know what others are going through if you don’t know them that well – or at all. How many times have you been running errands and had a run in with someone having a bad day? …
You see quotes all over social media all the time. Some of these I’ve seen quite often, some I haven’t seen at all, but all of them make me smile. Sometimes even when I don’t want to. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do! Please feel free to add your own in the…