I see this more and more these days and I’m not sure what to make of this “trend.” I know how I feel about it, but sometimes my “feelings” shouldn’t matter and this is why I’m writing this blog. I understand many of the moral reasons why individuals would go out of their way to [...]

Can we have both? How can we go forward if we hold on to the past so dearly? In some cases we actually let the past interfere from letting us “move” forward. It’s the opposite that I was told all my life growing up and yet here, every day, I witness society holding onto the [...]

Those are my mother’s words from as far back as I could remember: “Squeaky wheel gets the oil,” she would say. Those words have echoed in my head ever since I can remember. With three brothers in the family, it was a concept we became familiar with since a very young age. But not until [...]

I find myself writing about something that has become, or I should say is becoming, “okay” to exclaim: “I am proud to be disabled!” You may wonder about my statement, which is the header and motto for this blog. Proud to be disabled? For many years it has been viewed as negative or even tragic [...]