Mikelle and I feel compelled to write about life with a disability, not just the challenges but the opportunities, the friendships, the innovations, and the brilliance of our communities in action as we share our everyday life living with a disability. With a little more information, motivation, we hope to share how our life is shining beautiful and maybe help you to shine beautiful, too.
What if You Could—See What We Hear? 21st Century solutions for people who experience hearing loss.
Posted by: Sally Richards Media Marketing Consultant 20/20 Captioning and Reporting SRichards2020@aol.com https://www.2020captioning.com/ Imagine for a moment, the soft sounds from the hum of car, hoo hoo from a morning dove, crinkle-crinkle of leaves and splish-splash walking through a puddle. . Sounds are often taken for granted when one is
Think Before You Buy! What You Need to Know before You Get an iPad for your Child with Special Needs
By Brian Simms (Mikelle’s AT Guy!) Colorado Therapy Associates My grandfather always said, “When all else fails…think.” That’s what he told his high school chemistry students up until he retired at the age of 75 and I am reminded of that everyday when I see it written on his desk
Broncos and Boys, Celebrating Friendship Part 2
Well, the Part 2 didn’t go as planned. The Denver Broncos changed the time of training camp from afternoon to morning practice due to the threat of thunderous storms tumbling over the Rocky Mountains. Bummer. Disappointed by not deterred. Mikelle, Ian, Jerome and I were set to go. Her boys
Bronco’s and Boys, Part 1
It is set. Next week we are heading off to Bronco Training Camp. Ian, Mikelle and me. Last year it was Tim Tebow, this year it is Payton Manning. Just for grins, this is the story of how it went last year. We will see what happens this year. Go
Community in Action and Celebration
In a bone-dry park in the middle of Denver, Colorado—friends gathered for a celebration. Cool people came on this hot, record breaking summer day. The temperature raced to the top of the thermometer, breaking open a 105 degree record. As the smell of parched grass filled the air the wind
A Safe Harbor in the Stormy World of Special Needs
Posted by Katherine Carol In rural Alabama, along the quiet shores of Lake Martin between the fresh paved two-lane highway and the naked hillside, not long ago a tornado uprooted over a thousand trees as it danced and skipped where children play is a safe port. Tucked in the woods
The Most Beautiful Thing..Being a Parent
Posted by Adriana Carlson Pogar Note: Adriana has been a big part of creating our new book, Shining Beautiful. Additionally, Adriana She is a former roommate of Mikelle’s and is featured in this edition of our series. The most beautiful thing for me is holding my daughter as she sleeps
Recipe for the Perfect Cherry Pie
By Katherine Carol Take two twenty “somethings” dressed like early summer, one gliding gracefully, looking like a modern Renaissance painting, long, lightly seasoned red hair, luminous blue eyes with a smile that softly creeps up her porcelain face. The other shorter, dark, exotically Asian, slender limbs seated elegantly in her
Mile High Drop In—Mile High Magic Mikelle Style
I love a good surprise. Not of the “psycho rips through the shower curtain with a knife” variety. No, no, that’s not my style. My favorite surprises hinge on unanticipated happiness. Catching someone at just the right moment and seeing their face transformed with the excitement of experiencing something unexpected
Persistence is the Wild Protection of a Dream.
Years ago my, then, teenage son, Kasey, gave me a small picture he had picked up at an office supply company as a Christmas gift. The simple black frame contained a darkened background highlighting a small worn nub of a yellow #2 pencil. Its point was carved with a pen
How to Hold Your Balance in Chaos
Balance in Chaos: Finding Your Core Strength Balance. It seems like we are constantly searching for it in these turbulent, often chaotic, and even violent times. In my last blog, I explored how power is found in both the lead and the follow of life and dance. Today, I
Friends who Become Family
Two guys. One a barista, the other the boyfriend of my daughter, Mikelle’s roommate Lauren Lawton. Who says men don’t care? I say, men do care? They just show it differently than women. Ian, then a barista, now a business man decided to take a risk to become friends with