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“He was just … so into you.”

Thanks, Coach.

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Give A Wittle Bit

“This is my fwend Scotty.”
The boy’s friend (and ours), Uncle Scotty, gets up around 4:30 every morning to be best buddy to about 40 or 50,000 of his closest friends.
He’s been in the conversation for the best morning show in America many times over, and he’s a busy, busy guy. Lots of people want a [...]

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A Weekly Blur

Phew. What a week. How about you?
We spent most of the last week in Illinois visiting mom and dad and celebrating perfect weather for planting corn.
We’re very big on seed time and harvest around these parts.
Want to learn how patience is the greater expression of commitment? Spend a little time with a farmer. Those crops [...]

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Living on the Spectrum

In what could only be described as an historic display of bad judgment, Columbia Home & Lifestyle Magazine asked me for 1000 words about Will and Touchpoint Autism Services.
This is the fancy digital version.
You can either click here or on the image below to open their reader in a new window. It should take you [...]

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Sick Words

So, your tummy starts hurting a little bit on Sunday. You don’t sleep much, but you get up and head to St. Louis for a day of meetings.
Your tummy hurts a little more. You sleep a little less.
Tuesday you go see the doc at the urging of your mother. Yes, even though you’re almost 40, [...]

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Ugly But Functional

Like me, the blog doesn’t look very good, but it’s workin’ … I think I got everything fixed except it seems I lost a lot of the images, and the cosmetics need fixing.
But, at the end of the day, do you care? Probably not.
Do my clients care? Definitely not.
Does my family care? “Daddy, get off [...]

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My First Performance Review (from Kindergarten)

I’ve been thinking a lot about the boy lately. It’s Special Education Week, and while we’re spending time giving thanks to his teachers and his therapists, we’re also thinking about the world today and what’s changed and what hasn’t.
Apparently, I haven’t changed much. Like, ever.
Mom found it hidden somewhere, and now I keep this double-sided [...]

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Stories From Home.

I’m on the last night of a road trip to Austin, Texas. It’s been my first plane trip since baby Sarah was born in September.
I miss my family. Emails like this about our 5-year-old son, Will, make it a little easier … and a little harder …
From: Deidre Miles
Date: February 25, 2010 9:46:34 PM CST
To: [...]

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The Meeting That Saved My Career

Almost two years ago today, I sat down with Michele Miller and she shook me out of a whining, wandering, meandering, namby-pamby funk. She told me a lot of things that day. She scolded and shook and snapped me the heck out of a dangerously downward spiral.
Michele Miller kept me from working at Best [...]

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Can you get to 50? What's it take?

Weather extended my parents’ 50th anniversary celebration a couple extra days, and we got back to Mizzou last night. I spent a lot of time wondering on the eight-hour drive home:
What does it take – in the age of divorce – to get to 50 years of marriage?
And …
What does it take – in the [...]

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