It was midday on a Saturday (the day before Mother’s Day). I was sitting in my home office, more than an hour into a video interview for the third story we would publish on a local charter school. The interview was wrapping up, I was talking about reaching out to one more source before putting the s...

“Wait, are we going to talk about this?” I asked as we drove. “Talk about what?” my husband responded. “The fact that our son’s doctor just did an autism evaluation. We weren’t even talking about autism. Where did that come from?” ——— It was July 2020. The world was shut down. My family and I were i...