Brent Williams had a plan.He was visiting his son Fisher’s second-grade classroom to talk about his work as a mission planning manager for the Chandra X-ray Observatory. He’d prepared a PowerPoint presentation, complete with NASA pins and posters for the students.When he asked his wife,...

In October 2024, Brenda Walsh-Segesdi marked 30 years of volunteering with The Children’s Room.Her involvement began in 1994, when TCR was still a new initiative operating out of Hospice West in Waltham, two years before it formally became an independent nonprofit.That October, Brenda noticed something...

Carrie was 11 years old when her father, Craig, died in a helicopter accident.She remembers wanting to talk about it.“I definitely was craving talking about it at the time,” she says.Carrie was the youngest of four children, who were 11, 14, 17, and 20 when...