By Jennifer Lovy
Parenting is tough stuff. Really tough at times. And it doesn’t matter if you have one kid or seven of them. It doesn’t matter if your child is embracing his terrible twos or acting like a moody teenager (and she’s…
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Presenting: Louie, king of the monkeys!” This was Evan’s line last week in a camp performance of “The Jungle Book.” Six words. Evan’s six words in his first play ever. But this is more than a story about a boy…
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As a journalist, I’ve met and interviewed hundreds of people. A good interview flows like a conversation, and because I love talking to people and hearing their stories, the interview is often my favorite part of being a writer. Some…
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I just made a hotel reservation in Chicago. It’s one of my favorite places. Evan isn’t crazy about the Windy City – or any city – because there are too many sirens. During the call I informed the reservation specialist…
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We were warned, and we pretty much listened. When Evan got his diagnosis in 2007, we didn’t Google autism. Our most relied-on sources of information included doctors, books and other parents. When friends said they had an uncle’s brother’s…
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When the phone rang last Friday afternoon and the caller identified herself as a producer from Good Morning America, I immediately thought about the blog. This country’s most watched morning news show saw SpecialEv, I had surmised, and wanted to…
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“Mom, I think that person has autism,” says my 10-year-old son Noah. And because his brother Evan is on the spectrum, he has developed an intuitive ability to detect even the most subtle signs of autism. Sometimes Noah notices an…
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In 45 minutes the school bus will make a quick stop at the end of the driveway and deposit a handful of overjoyed children in my front yard. In just 45 minutes, summer vacation officially begins. Unofficially, our break started…
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Last week I wrote a blog about siblings and autism. Judging by the number of likes, shares and tweets, it must have resonated with a lot of people. But it also offended a bunch of folks, too, and they were…
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