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Last week marked the 20-year anniversary of my MS diagnosis. As a society, we place extra emphasis on round-number anniversaries like the 20th. But for me, this one is significant for another reason… To read the full blog post at MultipleSclerosis.net, click here.

Marva Serotkin, a friend of mine and a tireless disability advocate, helped develop this four-part web series entitled Disability and the American Past. Sign up by clicking here. If you are not able to watch the live events, you will have access to the recordings about a week afterward.  Thanks to Marva, the other members… Continue reading Disability and the American Past

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Warning: this is a story about a man and his pee. I’ve done everything possible to avoid a suprapubic catheter (SPC). To me, it meant “a freaking tube coming out of my belly,” and that’s all I needed to know. A tube. Would be coming. Out of my belly. No thank you. Losing my punch… Continue reading The Truth About Suprapubic Catheters

My friends and family all thought I would be among the first to get a vaccine because, as we say in Maine, I’m a hurtin’ unit. It didn’t work out quite that way, but it did work out. I became “fully vaccinated” a few days after my lovely wife, who qualified ahead of me because… Continue reading Spreading My Wings After Covid Vaccination

Although I agreed to wear a mask whenever I left the house for most of 2020, I was physically unable to put it on or take it off. Good thing I rarely left the house. In fact, since cold weather arrived in the fall, my physical world has shrunk to my living room, dining room,… Continue reading 2020 Annual Report

This fall I finally dug into Mitch Sturgeon’s memoir, Enjoying the Ride: Two Generations of Tragedy & Triumph.1 I don’t often trust memoirs, but I trust this one wholeheartedly. About Enjoying the Ride This personal account — truly a family saga, if one can say this about memoir — reads like most others in the category:… Continue reading I Love this Review of My Book: Enjoying the Ride

I belong to a nonprofit organization, 3i Housing of Maine, whose mission is to provide supportive housing for non-elderly adults with physical disabilities. We are targeting individuals who might otherwise end up in a nursing home well before their time. We are not yet recruiting for residents, but we are looking for readers with physical… Continue reading I’m Looking for Volunteers

As of this writing, the coronavirus pandemic has never been worse. Records for infections are being shattered. Hospitals are overrun. Death counts are soaring. Yet, the situation is not hopeless. Dr. Fauci said it best: “Help is on the way.” Good news at last Because of multiple, efficacious vaccines, we now have some idea how and… Continue reading COVID–19: In These Dark Days, a Glimmer of Light