Autist's Corner

Leaves starting to unfurl on a shrub we planted maybe three years ago? I think it was either the same time as we planted the viburnums or a ...

I've been posting a bunch of pictures of flowers from my garden --- lilacs , viburnums , bleeding hearts , vincas , and whatever this re...

Like the first couple pictures in my vinca post , these were actually taken last year. This plant flowers early, and I didn't get a pict...

Bleeding hearts!

Vincas! The above photos were taken on different days --- different years, actually --- the top two on a sunny day and the bottom on...

(Cross-posted from my Tumblr ) Here are some pictures of one of the viburnums --- we have three, but I only took pictures of one. We plant...

(Cross-posted from my Tumblr ) Here are a bunch of pictures of the lilac bush next to my house: Those pictures give a good idea...

There's a book I have, From Poor Law to Welfare State , that's a history of welfare programs in the US, from the colonial period to...

( This review is also posted on GoodReads.com) Cover of The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists and Spiritual Seekers in...

Atalanta is my favorite mythological character, and I was always disappointed that there were so few stories about her, as opposed to the zi...

(A very rough draft of this post is on my Tumblr . I have decided I really like "tag rambling" as a form of writing!) One of ...

... is that they so rarely hit their targets. The long shot to which I refer is John Elder Robison 's three-year effort to nudge Auti...

I carved a lot of jack-o'-lanterns this year: I really like how the four around the big one turned out, but I'm not as sure ...

"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people" - Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler It took a long time before this...