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...

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...

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. ...

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

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...

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”...

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...

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....

These days, we’d probably say that even the low-sodium variety had too much salt but in the good ol’ days, there was a vegetable drink...

I had an excellent time at the Chicago Autism Connection’s Spring Fling resource fair, this past Saturday. There was an excellent panel...

My son, who introduces these blogs a lot, is a big fan of Subway® restaurant. Since it caters to meat-lovers and vegetarians, can be...

A cartoon fairy god-person, holding a clipboard, hovers over a man holding a briefcase and says: “After Federal, State and Local taxes,...

My son’s latest mission is to collect car parts. This might be because he has an almost-eleven-year-old’s confidence that if he collects...

In a cartoon, there was a rather large gentleman, wearing a hodgepodge of household gadgets connected by wires stands happily in front of...

In 2014, Fox aired The Simpsons Guy. Extra credit if you can tell me which two dysfunctional, mildly obnoxious cartoon families starred...

One of the minor characters in the recent Sony Pictures animated film Peter Rabbit is a buck. As with the other anthropomorphic animals...