Beyond Broken

Still, I wasn’t sure if I could successfully teach and accommodate James on my own and maintain my sanity. But I had to try. In the end, it was liberating…

This depression had been in me for years, covered over by anxiety and anger about the logistics of caring for and educating my son, and the election had been the…

Physics tells us that Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest man, and my son run the 50-meter at the same speed when the dimension of time is taken into account. Neck…

On paper, James looks terrible. He can’t see a whole lot, he has shaking all over his body that makes simple tasks impossible, he has hearing loss, and his speech…

My son James is 11 and has multiple disabilities—he is motor impaired (wears leg braces up to his knees), fine motor impaired (has trouble holding a pencil and can’t use…