Liane Carter
- Location
- New York,
- Birthday
- December 31
- Bio
- Liane Kupferberg Carter’s articles and essays have appeared in more than 40 publications, including the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, Babble, Parents, and numerous literary journals, newspapers, and blogs. She is a columnist for Autism After 16:
http://ning.it/NFCZiG
Follow her on Twitter @LianeCarter and on Facebook at http://tiny.cc/k7loe
MY RECENT POSTS
- Laughing Too Loudly Lands Man
in Court
March 14, 2013 02:44PM - Autism's 1 in 88 Can't Wait:
Romney, Obama Campaigns
Address
September 28, 2012 08:21AM - What Cat Hair?
March 26, 2012 02:13PM - When Mom "Likes" Too Much
March 08, 2012 09:36AM - The Write Stuff
March 06, 2012 03:37PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “I agree with you.
Completely. There are no
excuses.”
March 13, 2012 05:34PM - “Zanelle, I "like" that
too. Thanks for your
thoughtful
comments.”
March 08, 2012 10:25AM - “Bravo. You're right. The
same is true of the V
word.
Rated.”
February 22, 2012 04:54PM - “You know what they say:
dogs have owners but cats have
staff.
Thanks for
rating!”
February 22, 2012 04:22PM - “According to Amazon,
March 27th. Here's a link if
you are
interested in
pre-order…”
February 15, 2012 08:02PM
Liane Carter's Links
Laughing Too Loudly Lands Man in Court
Autism's 1 in 88 Can't Wait: Romney, Obama Campaigns Address
Remember that saying from the 1970s -- that the personal is political?
As the parent of an autistic 20-year-old son, I know what my own family is struggling with. The need for employment. Housing. Health care. Insurance. Long-term community-based services and supports. Education. Transportation. Res… Read full post »
What Cat Hair?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of a good number of cats must be in want of a good cat mug.
I have three cats, so naturally people like to buy me cat themed gifts, especially oversized mugs. Whether earthenware or bone china, these… Read full post »
Okay, I’m going out on a limb here.
I’m a middle-aged mom and I love Facebook. And no, I’m not playing games like FarmVille, Kingdoms of Camelot or Mafia Wars. I love it for networking. So when “Saturday Night Live” recently aired a fake ad/… Read full post »
The Write Stuff
It's the question I dread most. You know. The get-acquainted conversational gambit: "What do you do?"
"I'm a writer," I mumble, and try to change the topic.
Too late. I've learned from sad experience what people always say next. And what I'd like (but don't dare… Read full post »
Feline Fatale
She was meant to be a companion for our cat Dizzy. She looked identical. The same kohl-rimmed eyes. The same silky, silver fur. The same sweet face. She was Dizzy’s Doppelganger.
But inside?
A heart of darkness.
Dizzy, our Maine Coon cat, was a year… Read full post »
The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism
Last week I was privileged to attend a luncheon at Ladies Home Journalin honor of the Golden Hat Foundation, founded by actress Kate Winslet, who appears on the cover of the current issue of the magazine.
Golden Hat is a new non-profit whose mission is “to eliminat… Read full post »
The Signs of Advanced Momhood
BY LIANE KUPFERBERG CARTER
Maybe it starts when you realize rock concerts give you a headache. Or that you're offering to cut up other people's food. Or that you catch yourself ending a discussion with, "Because I'm the mother, that's why." You've reached a new level of
Roots and Wings
If you ask our son Mickey what he might like to be when he grows up, he will probably say, “A librarian. Or a Pokemon Master!”
There aren’t too many jobs for a crackerjack Nintendo player, but Mickey is learning other skills. At 18, he attends the Comprehe… Read full post »
Writers' Prey
The blogosphere has been
buzzing in outrage recently over controversial author James Frey's newest
publishing venture, Full Fathom Five, a fiction factory that
pays a stable of young writers just $250 for commercially viable
young-adult novels, and offers them an exploitative, nonnegoti… Read full post »
BY LIANE KUPFERBERG CARTER
The first thing we decided when we found out I was pregnant was to wait until the third month before we told anyone.
Ten minutes later, I was combing through my address book, calling everyone from our realtor to my sixth grade teacher.
… Read full post »Our Dizzy Girl
“What a beautiful girl you are. You’re in heavy purr tonight, aren’t you sweetheart? my husband Marc croons.
He’s not talking to me.
He’s talking to Dizzy. An eight month old silver striped Maine Coon kitten with long silky fur and a lion’s ruff aroun… Read full post »
“We’re trying new medication for Jake,” my friend Lauren tells me. Her son, like mine, has autism and seizures.
“We saw bad side effects on that one,” I warn.
“I know. The doctor told me Jake might even have hallucinations. So I s… Read full post »
The One-Two Punch of Autism
"Your child has autism."
It's a devastating diagnosis for a parent to hear. But it's a one-two punch when your insurance company then refuses to cover the critical, medically necessary therapies your child desperately needs.
When our then-2-year-old son was diagnosed with a developmental disa
… Read full post »36 Ways to Wreck Your Vacation
1. Take your kids.
2. (Okay, forget number one.)
3. Rent a vacation house from people who don't have kids and don't like kids. Rent a house from people who are fond of model ships in bottles, glass sculptures, and white, wall-to-wall carpeting.
4. Pull your kid out… Read full post »
BY LIANE CARTER
I have an embarrassing confession.
Last week I was invited to a Tupperware Party. That's not the embarrassing part.
The embarrassing part is that I went.
It was an
n my house I don’t need a calendar to chart the
passage of time. I can plot the years by my husband’s
passions. 2009 was The Year of the China Obsession.
Marc decided he wanted to read ancient Chinese classics, and any old translations wouldn’t do. He cruised the… Read full post »
On April 2, we will celebrate the third annual World Autism Awareness Day. But there is a war raging within the autism community.
Parents are still pitted against each other over the vaccine issue, despite the fact that numerous well designed scientific studies have failed to show any c… Read full post »
A Clinical Failure
The letter was terse. Our health insurance company would no longer cover our son's epilepsy medication unless we switched from the brand name drug to a generic form. They would re-authorize covering the brand name medication only if he took the generic drug for a month and… Read full post »
The R Word
We were trying on hats at a department store counter when my childhood friend said it.
"I never know how to wear these," she said. "I'm such a fashion retard."
I was shocked. I said, "We don't use that word."
She turned red. "You're right. I am so sorry," she said.… Read full post »
“If you could be anything in the world and talent and money weren’t an issue, would you still be doing what you do, or something else?"
My husband posed this question in an attempt to liven up a rather staid Upper East Side party one night. The gathered Wall Street
… Read full post »Pink
The Hanna Anderson catalog of children's clothing arrived today. I pore over the pink striped stretchies, diminutive sun dresses and dotted pink diaper covers. Then I fill out the order form: yellow long johns, red socks, cobalt underwear. Noth… Read full post »
I am a perfume slut.
I can’t be faithful to just one fragrance. I have serial love affairs; no signature scent for me. This morning, I own thirty-something bottles of perfume and 103 sample vials on a dedicated closet shelf. And that doesn’t include the bottles
… Read full post »Those Kids
The phone rings late one afternoon as I am chopping salad. Cordless receiver wedged between my shoulder and my ear, I line up a row of cherry tomatoes on the cutting board.
"Hi, my son Jeremy is a volunteer in your sports program," a woman who identifies herself as "Jeremy's mom,"… Read full post »
Nuts
This is the story my sister-in-law’s brother Andrew told over dinner:
One night he, some friends and a fellow female student at Brown University went to a local bar hangout. The waitress brought them a tray of tortilla chips and the house salsa, which contained a special, secret ingredient. The… Read full post »
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