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...
Apr 15, 2025 | Lessons Learned, Misc, Sex + Dating, Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, I made a post about dating as a divorced, 40-year-old quadriplegic woman. Toward the end of it, I mentioned someone special—a human who’s been in my life for nearly a year and a half now.We made the intentional decision to keep our relationship...
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,...
Feb 10, 2025 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Professional, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
Thank you to Los Angeles Magazine for featuring my TEDx talk as one of the top 30 impactful talks of this century! A huge congratulations to my fellow TEDx’ers!! Editor’s Picks! 30 TED(x) Talks That Have Made an Impact This Century! I woke up to a friend sending...
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...