Have you ever had your own lawyer? Before we hired one to advocate at Sophie’s IEP meeting, I never had. I’ve written about lawyers, I’m related to lawyers, I contemplated becoming a lawyer. Some of my best friends are lawyers. But until today, I really had no idea what it felt like to have a [...]
This afternoon is the dreaded IEP meeting, the day (finally) when we will (probably) discuss what sort of help (if any) Sophie is going to be offered in the classroom. She might be offered a one-way ticket out of the mainstream classroom at our neighborhood school. It’s happened before. It’s been years, but it still feels [...]
Don’t see the movie Hop. That may be the single most valuable thing I’ve said in nearly three years of blogging. A terrible excuse for a movie. For a while, today, my sister tried to argue that actually Sex and the City 2 is the worst movie ever made, but I’m not sure. (Hop, by [...]
Spring is here, and the fig tree in my front yard is covered in fresh green leaves. Phew. Not long ago, the yard guy told Ray that the tree won’t last much longer. It’s got some sort of incurable something. We’ve grown accustomed to losing our favorite trees. Fourteen years ago, when we moved into this [...]
