Journalist, Author, Blogger

What do our special kids really want for the holidays? What do you buy for a child who doesn’t make a list? Who doesn’t play with toys, or read, or care what they wear? Maybe we’re overthinking it.
Whenever I pick up a newspaper, one of the first sections I always turn to is the obituaries. It sounds morbid, I know, but it’s so much more than that. Back in my college journalism class so many years ago, one of our first assignments was writing obituaries. I learned an important lesson then, that I…