My husband was out walking a couple of evenings ago when he passed a cyclist on a tandem bike in our neighborhood. The cyclist, full of ...

My son’s Little League team won their game last Sunday. (If you do Little League, you will know about “Fall Ball”). Despite a last-minu...

The father of one of my son’s schoolmates approached me on a field trip. He mentioned that he was thinking, maybe, of attending one of m...

By her own account, Meghan Trainor’s song “All About That Base”, makes a statement that a woman with a large, well, “base” can still be s...

In an attempt to catch me up in the ongoing video game revolution that I have mostly missed, my husband has educated me about certain gam...

My niece requested for her birthday a gift certificate from a certain clothing store she “frequents”. The quote marks are because she pr...

My family and I are currently enjoying The Inbestigators (indicating the best investigators) as our evening escapism. The Australian TV...

Last week, my family and I took a trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. We drove. (This, by the way, accounts for the missed blog last w...

This past Sunday, my eleven-year-old son competed in his first ever parkour competition. For those of you who don’t know—like me a year ...

For seven years, I ran a small, faith-based social-service agency in the near-west suburbs of Chicago. It is first and foremost a commun...

We give our eleven-year-old son an allowance so that he can learn the value of money, mainly by coming up against the cold, hard, adult f...

For my first professional career, I worked as a stock market analyst in Hong Kong and, later, Shanghai. For those of you who have never ...

Among Saturday Night Live’s (SNL’s) parody ads is one for “Alexa Silver”. You can watch the whole thing here. (Note: language and humor ...

I was math-phobic in primary school. Perhaps that is an embarrassing admission for someone, who now makes her living running numbers. B...

Sesame Street, the longtime children’s educational show, turns 50 this year. Count Von Count introduced a recent radio segment, which lo...

I’m a big fan of Star Trek. One of the things I find most attractive about the fictional futuristic setting of all the series is how eve...

In one FoxTrot cartoon sequence, Jason (the annoyingly and excessively nerdy little brother) hands his older sister Paige a coded message...

It’s not new, but I really like this video: in which young adults with Down syndrome question whether or not they really have “special” n...

Rather than discuss an aspect of special needs planning, my blog this week will pay homage to a man named Jean Vanier (1928-2019), who ha...

If you have siblings, or if you are a parent to more than one child, you know that pretty much all siblings have a love-hate relationship...