Journalist – Historian – Speaker
A little over a year ago, I wrote a piece for CNN on my daughter. It was the first piece I had written that hit a truly mass audience – well over two hundred thousand clicks, 32K facebook shares, incalculable tweets (because CNN does things with their URLs that makes it hard to count them). …
Today is World Down Syndrome Day, chosen because 3/21 reflects the three 21st chromosomes that mark the genetic condition Trisomy-21, also known as Down syndrome. It’s a day about awareness and you will, if you’re lucky, see lots and lots of cute pictures of kids and adults with Down syndrome. Here’s a cute picture of …
I’ve built this site for three reasons: 1. Publish pieces that I can’t publish somewhere else (particularly when needing to get a piece out before an event or news cycle). 2. Publish half-baked ideas that aren’t ready yet (and may never be ready), brainstorm on issues, organize and store data, and otherwise chat about interesting …