“A one-in-a-million thing had happened again” Kellee Stone writes. “My babies were gone from my life forever and so was the house.” Stone’s alter ego the barely fictionalized Ann Deane Teal suffers through unthinkable loss in... Read More

College can be a horrifically difficult testing ground for the beginning student making demands on time discipline and organizational abilities. Too often the result is a shallow paper chase where an undergraduate is happy to survive the... Read More

Joe Carmichiel doesn’t need to read the newspaper or watch the evening news to learn about the distressing state of America’s youth. As a high school English teacher, he gets daily, up-close views of students who are completely inept... Read More

Compilations of essays, if not skillfully edited, can often dart and ramble, leaving the reader a bit disheveled trying to hold on. Not so in this treasure of a book. These essays, organized into three sections—Waking, Struggles with... Read More

Historically, when a child is diagnosed with a disability, it is a diagnosis for life. Though they will grow and learn, the disability will impact them forever. People dont recover from cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome, or blindness.... Read More

During a payroll robbery in 1920, someone shot and killed Alesandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter. Berardelli was the chief bookkeeper for a shoe manufacturing company in Massachusetts and Parmenter was a security guard who worked... Read More

Parents who have children on the autism spectrum usually start out with a “normal” child. Their shock comes slowly, as their typical-looking child loses skills like talking; shows little interest in people; avoids eye contact; or in... Read More

In 1870s England, male and female telegraph operators generally worked together. It was a positive arrangement, the postmaster general believed, because “it raises the tone of the male staff by confining them during many hours of the... Read More