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
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Until Death Do Us Part
(This is sixth in a series reflecting on how life changed in a way that was–and still is five years later–unfathomable to me.) On Tuesday night, I fell asleep at about 10:30. My phone jangled me awake about an hour later. It was Jefferson. A nurse told me that Terry had taken a turn for… Continue reading Until Death Do Us Part
