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How to win a video contest
Okay, so this is my official announcement (and acknowledgment) regarding the status of the “What Can YOU Do?” video contest hosted by the Campaign for Disability Employment. My entry, “Meet Sue,” was...
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Fourth Quarter
John Elway, screenshot of Tecmo Super Bowl I use to be near the forefront of video gaming technology. When I was a kid I usually had a better video game setup than my friends. My first system was the...
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The tangible world
Today, Matt and I took a walk outside, as we often do, to thaw out from being air conditioned for much too long and to talk in private about things that were on our minds. As we rolled along down the...
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Not your average run of the meal experience
Let me throw you a little hypothetical scenario. Taking from all the usual oddities that happen to me when I go out to eat, I’m going to walk (get it?) you through a fictional account of what eating...
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Why campus life was perfect for me
As mi hermano prepares to graduate in May with a Master in Spanish, I got the chance to visit him on campus this weekend in order to bring home some of his stuff. He lives in the very on-campus...
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Losing weight as a crip could result in side effects
For the first 21 years of my life, I was a fat kid. I wasn’t the fat kid, because by virtue of living in Mississippi, most all kids were fat. I was content with my unhealthy eating habits, and those...
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BBC documentary supports suicide for disabled people
British author Terry Pratchett’s June 6 BBC-aired documentary “Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die” is yet another example of the trending idea that if you become disabled, you might as well kill...
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We still have our dreams
Something happened the other day. A coincidence of sorts. I had a moment where everything came together to lift me out of what seemed like a hopeless situation. This is the kind of coincidence that one...
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“Walk it off” vs. “Roll with it”
by Phillip Parris The other day I heard my father growling like a bear in the next room. Now, this is not an unusual occurrence for my father. He usually has the tendency of calling me into the living...
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Inclusion is attitude, not policy
Policy stuff frustrates the mess out of me. I’ve determined that it’s because policy tends to manifest itself to me as useless bullcrap. Or worse, a cop-out for the government to be a jerk (although...
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