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.

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