Tommy Des Brisay and Adel, his Autism Assistance Dog Guide had the honour of being featured in a story in a wonderful online magazine called Zoom Autism! The link to this issue of the Zoom Autism magazine is here… Tommy and Adel are on Page 11! https://www.joomag.com/magazine/zoom-autism-magazine-issue-6/0538459001449160242?short Check out Zoom Autism’s Facebook page, too!

Canadian Running Magazine November 2015 featured a four page story about Tommy! Click here to see the pdf and read the story! Thank you to Martin Cleary and Canadian Running Magazine for the wonderful story! CanadaRunning

June 11, 2015 Exciting news! Last night Tommy ran the 1500m in 4:18 in a Twilight series official race at Mooney’s Bay track. The qualifying time for a T20 para athlete (Tommy’s para category) to qualify for the Para PanAm games in Toronto this August is 4:20 or faster! 🙂 🙂 It was a very … Continue reading “Tommy qualifies for Parapan Am Games 2015~”

In 2008, when Paul was about to attend university, I wrote the following letter to Autism Society Ontario, nominating Paul for a scholarship for siblings of persons with Autism. I want to share it here. I would like to add that since the writing of this letter, Paul has continued to amaze us with his … Continue reading “A 2008 Letter about Tommy’s Big Brother Paul”

Tommy completed his first Marathon on Sunday, May 25 at the Ottawa Race Weekend, in a fantastic time of 2:39:12, smiling all the way. He was interviewed at the finish line by lots of reporters, and gave great interviews. His first words when the microphones and cameras were pointed to him were “I have sensational … Continue reading “Tommy’s First Marathon”

Tommy’s Epiphany (at age 14) Written by Tommy’s mom, MaryAnn in September 24, 2006, after Tommy ran his first large, organized road race.This weekend Tommy participated in his very first road race. The pre-race registration, and a barbecue afterwards, were held at the veterans’ hospital. I was excited at his achievement of the milestone of being … Continue reading “Tommy’s Epiphany (At his very first road race) September 24, 2006”

Canadian Running Magazine ran a story about Tommy in their April/May 2014 edition! Here is is:

Adel was in the back yard just now, and Peter looked out and saw a skunk on the deck right by the back door! Adel was lying there, relaxing, as the skunk approached her! Peter freaked out and yelled really wildly, in a panicked and shouting frenzy, opening the door and frantically calling Adel inside, … Continue reading “Seeing Language in Colour”

After working all morning on a beautiful drawing of me, Tommy is now in the basement stretching for his run, and he chose to play “Baby Mine” from Dumbo as his stretching music (by Steve Tyrell, one of Tommy’s very favourite Disney cover artists, which makes it even more beautiful to listen to  And today, Mother’s … Continue reading “Mother’s Day 2014”