This is a new adventure. I have no idea how often I will update this blog or what I will even talk about. If you are looking for the exceptional, I won't promise you will find it here. But I have been interested in just having a place to write my musings. If you find them interesting, great. If you want to comment, great. If you want to ignore me, great.
As the profile states, I'm an accountant. I specialize in tax accounting. I am married and have a son who has Down Syndrome and is Autistic. Yes, initially that would seem to be a strange combination, but we have found that it is not uncommon. There is evidence to suggest that both are linked to genetics. There has been a lot of talk about "finding a cure" for Autism. I will probably have to devote some time to that subject in a future post, but let me just note for now that there are no "cures". There are ways of understanding, methods for coping, and techniques for lessening the more destructive characteristics. But one does not "cure" something that is not a disease. And to say that Autism is a disease insults me for some reason. My son doesn't get insulted -- he just ignores you. But I feel insulted by the insensitive comments that are perpetuated by the uninformed and/or the ignorant. I won't say that I know everything, in spite of what my siblings will claim that I have boasted. But I will say that I try to learn before I speak too loudly. I am not always perfectly informed, but I do try. I guess I should be more tolerant of those who are also trying. I should probably be more tolerant of those who are not trying, too.
My life so far has been eclectic. While I am a tax accountant, I am also a musician (I sing and I used to play the trumpet fairly well -- the time to pursue all of my interests no longer exists and thus I no longer make the time to practice the trumpet, which is an informed decision, but one that does make me sad at times) and a lover of good books and good movies (and some not so good movies, but ones that are a lot of fun -- call them guilty pleasures). I have lived in or traveled to several different countries and am recently finding a great pleasure in taking cruises through NCL -- our family vacations have been to Alaska and Mexico recently and we would like to go to Europe and cruise through the Baltic capitals some day soon.
I am sure that more of my interests, lifestyle, background, family, and opinions will surface as we continue this journey of ramblings. But I will end for the moment as time is always going to be a major factor in this adventure.
But speaking of time, I will close with this thought -- we all have the same amount of time. What we choose to do with it is up to us. To say that we don't have time for this or that is just plain asinine -- what we must recognize is that we have time to do whatever we want. It is all a matter of choices. How we spend our time is our decision to make. Sometimes our past decisions monopolize our current time allotments, but again, we still made a choice at one point or another, for better or for worse.
