Remembering My Aunt Hattie

Sometime after her sister, my mother, died and before her Alzheimer’s developed to the point she didn’t recognize or know…

Books Published, People Cherished

I am a judge for the Independent Book Publishers Association’s Benjamin Franklin Awards. Perhaps surprisingly, this work predates my years…

These weekend wintry early mornings in which at times I’m feeling a little drawn—hardly inclined to roll out of bed,…

I opened my talk at the 2019 HANd Autism & Neurodiversity Conference, themed as “My Autism Journey—Various Perspectives,” in this way,…

I told this story in my keynote address at the HANd Autism & Neurodiversity Conference in fall 2019 at Appalachian…

I recently interviewed the owners of Crystal Visions in North Carolina for Retailing Insight, the successor to New Age Retailer…

I was invited again this year to give a short talk as part of the Disability Day of…

I think we widely recognize the silos of information and perspective we now live in, as a society and as…

Earlier this week I recorded a podcast with Melanie Vann for Springbrook’s Converge Autism Radio. It posted today. The podcast…

Part of this piece was written for a recent conference talk—that actually instead turned into pure Q&A—so the beginning, at…