Journalist – Historian – Speaker
I wrote about my son’s bright green hearing protectors for Pacific Standard. I hesitated to get them at first, badly swayed by the idea that they would more firmly mark him as different and cause isolation. They do the opposite. They open up the world. Including Hamilton. Here’s the takeaway: I’m not alone. I know far …
Tonight my family goes to Hamilton in Chicago. Hamilton is super important to my son, as I wrote for the Washington Post. We’ve been moved up to seats with easy access to exits. It’s apparently very loud. Also it’s late. We’re nervous, but ready to walk out and go home at any point if needed and count …
I’m in DC with my family over Halloween. It’s going to be a great but complicated day in which I need to remember the following from my recent Washington Post article: “The effort to find ways to communicate belongs to all of us, not just to a person whose communication methods might be atypical.” I’m going to …