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The movie “The Last Castle” tells the story of an army prison, and how a disgraced general joins the ranks of the prisoners only to lift their spirits and bring them to believe in themselves and their honor again. In the very first words spoken by the hero, played by Robert Redford, I found aContinue reading “Every Castle is a Prison, Every Prison is a Castle”

Censorship in todays world is more challenging than ever. A kid in a small town fifty years ago was not bombarded with information like our kids are, nor was information of all kinds so easily accessible to him. Once you might have just needed to verify your son didn’t buy the wrong magazine and hideContinue reading “Censorship: A guide out of it”

I hope you dance? It happens all the time: Abby will sit or stand somewhere and belt out, singing a song that popped into her head. Or perhaps she’s in the mood to dance, spinning around or lifting her legs in impossible angles and to impossible heights. It’s really fun for me to watch whenContinue reading “How to handle a Living Room Dance”

It was another day like any other in the Israeli spring. The sun was shining, and there was not a cloud in the sky. The only hint that it was spring and not summer was that the air wasn’t boiling up from the pavement. And on this day, Ray walked into his 3rd grade class,Continue reading “Telling your kid – and the world – that he has ASD”