Raise Your Hand

Raise your hand if you have never heard of Ed Roberts. Raise your hand if you have never been called a vegetable. Raise your hand if you have never organized a nationwide–and then a worldwide–movement to enable disabled people to live independently.  Raise your hand if you did not know that approximately 70 million U.S.… Continue reading Raise Your Hand

School Shootings

As I wrote in the previous post, I am working on a compilation of my writings over the years, Whatever: The Art of Moving On. One of the things I wrote about is school shootings, spurred by a fatal shooting in our biology lab—five years before Columbine—at the high school where I taught for 39… Continue reading School Shootings