The title comes from my description of a certain behavior I often witnessed at conferences. Two conference attendees are approaching each other in a hotel hallway or on the exhibit floor. One of the attendees (the distance determined by their eyesight) looks at the other’s face. If they do not immediately recognize the person, theyContinue reading “Sniffing Name Tags”
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Just a Typical Day
Was today typical? In the last few years my vocabulary of words with prefixes has grown. Words normally (hah!) normal gained new variations having “neuro-” added to them. There’s “neuro-typical” and “neuro-divergent” joining the older “atypical.” When the prompt asks, “Was today typical?,” my first response is: well, I just started my day, so it’sContinue reading “Just a Typical Day”
We Are Family?
I’m often amazed at how people who say they are very pro-family and supportive of their family members actually don’t treat them very well. Sometimes I’m watching a movie or TV show, and the mother says something to the son or daughter, and my response is, “What mother would ever say that to their child?”Continue reading “We Are Family?”