What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.