May 20, 2025 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Professional, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
There are a few things I wish someone had handed me early in life: 📝 A how-to guide on being paralyzed with style📉 A manual on avoiding airport catastrophe🎁 And maybe a coupon for lifetime bubble wrap I didn’t know what I didn’t know—until I learned the hard way. And...
May 9, 2025 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Professional
(Could this be you? Or someone you love?) I wish I could say this is one of my usual dark humor posts. It’s not. It is, however, one of the most necessary things I’ve written in a while—for all of us, as human beings navigating a system that often forgets the human...
Mar 8, 2025 | Advocacy, Before the Accident, Lessons Learned, Professional, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
(Because Some Moments Take Time to Face) Signing up for the National Storytelling Competition made me revisit a photograph I’ve never shared beforeI blocked off four-hour chunks for book editing. Progress update? Still on round one… with three more to go. Turns out,...
Jan 24, 2025 | Advocacy, Funnies, Lessons Learned, Sex + Dating
Life loves a good plot twist, doesn’t it? I never imagined becoming a quadriplegic—or a divorcee, for that matter—but here I am, navigating uncharted territory with all its messy beauty.Honestly, it’s probably for the best that we can’t predict the future. Would we...
Jan 13, 2025 | Advocacy, Funnies, Lessons Learned, Professional, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
Have you met Kate Gladdin ? If not, you have to check her out right now. We were introduced to a mutual friend and she is also a Keynote motivational speaker, best-selling author, and coach for women. As I say time and time again, life and everything in between is all...
