Hunkering Down – Hellish Headlines
If you’re wondering when—and if—there’s going to be ANY good news about anything in the world, you can stop now. Yes, it’s true that February ended last week—the coldest February in New York City since 1934, and third coldest EVER. But March is living up to its...
read moreFeminism – The Sound and Fury
Despite harassment and on-line abuse, feminist writers will NOT go gently into the night. Last week The Washington Postran an on-line article about prominent female authors, bloggers, and speech makers who have been subjected to hateful name calling and death...
read moreDisservices for the Disabled—Hell to Pay!
Disservices for the Disabled—Hell to Pay! What’s next for my daughter, a high functioning young woman on the autistic spectrum? I’ve been attempting to answer that question ever since Sarah graduated cum laude from Pace University with the Class of 2014. (See...
read moreBuried Treasures
Despite our annual spring cleaning ritual— dutifully dragging out industrial-sized garbage bags of each year’s detritus— the Elisofon family nest has accumulated way too much, well, stuff. After over 20 years in the same apartment raising our twins, our nest...
read moreBlizzard Boondoggle
History was made this week—but NOT the way meteorologists expected. Record snowfalls were predicted in a seemingly endless (and tedious) loop on every news station all weekend. In anticipation of an overnight snowfall of two to three feet, Governor Cuomo and...
read moreAcceptance
In spite of severe writer’s block, this week I was (finally!) inspired to write about “acceptance”—a deceptively bland word with multiple meanings, often accompanied by a broad range of emotions. Dictionary.com offered three definitions: “the act of taking or...
read moreWeathering Winter
Now that the holidays are behind us—and the January sales are upon us—how do we cope with all these frigid, dark days? It’s not like spring is around the corner; we still have to slog through February and March (possibly the cruelest months). Yes, I know there...
read moreInaugural Visits
No, we didn’t drop in on DeBlasio or Obama this past weekend. More exciting—to us anyway—was our inaugural visit to our son’s new home in Brooklyn. Despite the relentless rain this past Saturday, Henry and I made our first pilgrimage to Crown Heights to visit...
read moreHatching the Next Generation
Hatching the Next Generation Instead of looking back at 2014, I thought it would be more fun to look forward. What happens to new empty nesters down the road after their offspring have flown the coop? Some parents may preserve a grown up child’s room...
read moreCrazy Christmas
If you’re Jewish like me and—and not very religious—your experience of Christmas is probably very different from the traditional family holiday featured in a Norman Rockwell painting. Even if you light Hanukkah candles every night and wrap eight gifts for each...
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About Marguerite
Marguerite Elisofon is a New York City writer and the author of My Picture Perfect Family, a memoir about how her family navigated life with a child on the autistic spectrum before the internet and support groups existed. She also blogs about parenting young adults and disability related issues in The Never Empty Nest. Her writing has been featured in a variety of publications, including Time and NY Metro Parents magazine, and her family’s story has been featured by the NY Post, Fox News, The Daily Mail, and on Jenny McCarthy’s Dirty Sexy Funny radio show. A Vassar graduate, Marguerite was born and raised in New York City, where she still lives with her husband, Howard, in their mostly-empty nest. She is available to speak about a wide variety of issues relating to twins, parenting, and autism. 