Joel Yanofsky

Joel Yanofsky is a Montreal writer. His book Bad Animals: A Father’s Accidental Education in Autism is available from Penguin in Canada and Skyhorse in the U.S.


Articles by Joel Yanofsky

A Tribe of One’s Own

Watching the final outs of the seventh game of the World Series last month, I couldn’t help wondering whether the ...

A New Normal

Summer is over and the excitement of my son Jonah’s longest ever stay at sleep-away camp, three weeks, is starting ...

Tikkun Olam: “Doing Stuff”

I’ll start with a confession. After writing these monthly blogs about summer camp for almost two years now, I still ...

Please Consider My Case

“You’ll see, he won’t want to leave in the end,” my wife, Cynthia, said. “He’s going to have the time ...

Cold Feet

Later this month, my fifteen-year-old son, Jonah, is off to Camp B’Nai Brith (CBB) in the Laurentians, about an hour ...

Togetherness Squared

For the last four summers, whenever my wife, Cynthia, and I have put our son, Jonah, on the bus to ...

Easy Money

For the last few days, I’ve been walking around the house singing and dancing more or less in tune and ...

Chaos Theory

When you’re the parent of a child with autism, you’re always bracing yourself for the endless string of theories headed ...

“Would Life Have Been Better Without Your Son?”

The call came the other day from our son Jonah’s sleep-away summer camp. Registration was almost completed and we hadn’t ...

The What-if Moment

There’s no point pretending this blog post is going to be about camp or summer, especially summer. Montreal in February ...