Blog
Reflections on giftedness, therapy, neurodivergence, meaning, post-religious life, and whatever else catches my attention.
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Teaching an Autistic Teen to Drive: Expect It to Take a Year
August 30, 2026I have helped teach two autistic young people to drive: my daughter and my stepdaughter.
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What Does Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) Feel Like?
August 23, 2026At Sundance this year I saw See You When I See You, a film based on Adam Cayton-Holland’s memoir Tragedy Plus Time. The movie unfortunately hasn’t gotten a p...
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Is It Trauma or Neurodivergence? Why You May Not Need to Know
August 16, 2026Trauma and neurodivergence can look remarkably similar from the outside. Often we cannot tell which one—or which combination—explains a particular person’s e...
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Gifted Adult Loneliness: Finding Friends Who Understand You
August 9, 2026Gifted loneliness does not always look like being alone.
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Giftedness as Obligation: The Relief of Being Average
August 2, 2026There is a moment in The Princess Bride when the grandson interrupts the story to point out that he had predicted the plot correctly. His grandfather answers...
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Therapy for Gifted Adults: What Gifted-Informed Therapy Offers
July 26, 2026Gifted education is not simply about giving children harder worksheets. At its best, it offers an appropriate pace, greater complexity, opportunities to lear...
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The Serenity Prayer, But Make It a Flow Chart
February 20, 2026I first encountered the Serenity Prayer as a kid. It hung on someone’s wall, or Dear Abby introduced it to me. Either way, it lodged itself somewhere in my b...
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When Giftedness Leads to Burnout
January 20, 2026Many of the people I work with are gifted.
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Twenty Years Later: What Cancer Taught Me
November 19, 2025Twenty years ago, I was diagnosed with stage 3C breast cancer. My children were 7, 5, and 3. The odds were not in my favor, but I’m still here. Here’s what I...