Happy Birthday Colin!
His gut-wrenching response to her question broke his mother’s heart. She wasn’t content to leave the situation alone, so she looked outside the box for a solution. What happened next could potentially change his life. Colin is a young man who lives in Michigan. He is...
Hot Towels Required
It is a ritual that I started only recently. Just before I hop in the shower, I put two or three large towels in the dryer, so they are nice and warm and I can wrap myself in them when I get out. It is a simple thing, but I love it. It makes me feel special....
What is Power?
I thought the coach from my high school who helped me train for the ParalymIpics might be disappointed. I thought my family would think I had given up. I was afraid lots of people in my life wouldn’t understand. So I resisted. For a long time. It wasn’t for...
Understanding Makes Tolerance Unnecessary
I don't know who first said this quote, but I heard it the other day and I love it. And I can relate to it. Understanding makes tolerance unnecessary. Last week my life sucked eggs. Plain and simple. I just can't sugar coat that. There is a subject that I don't...
Let Us Give Thanks!
This was supposed to be a Thanksgiving post. Sorry, I am a few weeks behind... In many ways, it seems like yesterday, but it was so long ago. During the summer of 1986, I was in a stage of my life when it seemed like everything should be going my way. A recent high...
One Track Mind
It is time to own up to it. I have a one track mind. No, it is not in the gutter. And I don’t see issues in the world as black or white, good or bad, right or wrong. I see the world as accessible or inaccessible. Maybe it’s from having a lifelong disability and...
They Should Have Let Her Swim
It wasn’t just a day to celebrate, but also to remember; a day to look back and reflect on how far our nation had come. Several days ago marked the fiftieth anniversary of the “I Have a Dream” speech. On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. said “In a sense, we...
Tallies Unnecessary
It was definitely one of my “disability” days, the kind I struggle with a little more often than I would like. When I dropped something on the floor, couldn’t access something else on a high shelf in the fridge, and had an itch on my foot that I couldn’t reach to...
Be the Cinnamon
It was not the most brilliant thing I’ve ever done. When I wanted a snack one night, I opened a container of Greek vanilla yogurt and went to my spice rack to sprinkle something on top. Cinnamon has always been one of my favorite flavors and I frequently use it to...
What A Difference A Year Makes…
People in the crowd in Lake Placid, New York were cheering, crying, staring in utter disbelief. It wasn’t supposed to happen. But it did. “It may be the single most indelible moment in sports history, said Sports Illustrated, “one that sent the entire nation into...