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What’s Fair? (Part 1)
Do you believe in fairness? Do you try to treat everyone equally? I had a curious conversation recently. Seated over lunch at an event with some men I’d just met, one guy (correctly) observed that the...
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What’s Fair? (Part 2)
The most unfair thing we could possibly do is to treat everyone exactly the same. Do you agree? I want to follow up on yesterday’s story about fairness. I recapped a conversation with a guy who...
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Do You Belong In Bethlehem?
What would Jesus think if I showed up in Bethlehem? I’ve been trying to spend some time each day during this Christmas season at the nativity scene, wondering about the thoughts, emotions, and...
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Done With The Chair
Becky and I have this morbid humor between us about some of the things we say related to disability. We chuckle when she asks me to “run to the store” or tells me “don’t step on Monte’s tail.” The...
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An Able Bodied World?
Rich’s Ride provided countless rewards and a few challenges. One significant test arrived in the form of a question. A Christian disability-advocacy group invited me to a meeting. I began as I often do...
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Who Belongs?
Note: as I process my experience from Rich’s Ride I’ve been writing some of my thoughts about accessibility and inclusion. Previous articles include Ain’t No Normal and An Able Bodied World? One of the...
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What Would You Change?
If you could go back, what would you change? Occasionally someone asks a question something like this: So much good has come from your injury. Knowing that, if you could go back and change that day...
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A Bigger Picture
Ever forget you’re not the center of the universe? My discussion with a spinal injury support group left me pondering the whole notion of An Able-Bodied World. The audience was folks who are relatively...
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A Quarter Century…
…is a long time. I can remember when a quarter-century was my whole life, then most of my life. Now it’s less than half my life, but it’s still a long time. A quarter-century ago today, lots of things...
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Sharing The Trail
Recently a project got me digging in the depths of the Bouncing Back archives. It’s dusty in there! Hard to believe I’ve accumulated more than 1,000 posts in nearly five years, and that doesn’t include...
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