Hello. It has been a while since I have published. I recently returned to work….well, not recently, three years ago and I am loving my new “in-my-older-years” job.

My new job took off around the same time I thought I would work on writing a memoir based on my son’s autism. I was really serious too. I had a book coach and everything. I wrote fourteen complete chapters and was on my way to twenty-one when I decided it was making me too damn sad. I wanted to write a happy book and my coach said well you just can’t write the happy stuff without diving into the not so good and painful stuff and after outlining, drafting, editing and polishing foruteen chapters, I took some time to think about whether or not I should move forward and I took into consideration how heavy the burden of this memoir had become, I decided that I damn well could just write about the happier times. I didn’t have to re-live the dark days especially now that he is doing SO well. There is always gonna be something with my son that isn’t so pleasant but that does not mean we can’t share the good times we celebrate as a family.

Besides, I gathered up my courage and I got into commercial and bit-part movie acting and I am doing well. Like REALLY WELL! AND I LOVE IT! I have had fifty-seven jobs to date and I have only been at this for three years. (Not bad for a fifty-eight-year-old, huh?) I like making a living from my acting and I like that writing is my “unpaid-free-to-share-with-all” passion.

I am happy.

My God, for the first time in years I can truly say, I AM TRULY HAPPY.

My family is happy.

And, we are healthy.

So, I am going to share our state of happy while I am able.

And who knows…it may even help someone with their autistic son or daughter.

So, stay tuned for my account of the good things over the years with our precious, talented and beautiful son. I will try my best to post every Friday and if you are a parent of a child with autism or a guardian or support person etc., let me know if I have helped you in any way. It’s nice to get to know the community of like-souls, for what are we if we don’t support each other, right?

Till Friday my dear readers….

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