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.

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