It is not a lie that the internet is a great equalizer. No matter the background of a person, they can connect to the internet and have access to the same things everyone else does. Unless you live in a country with censorship, a person has access to the same research, communities, news, and entertainment.…

I don’t plan to grand stand or pretend that I can say something to fix it. I neither live there nor have any chance of being drafted since I am so disabled that the military recruiters that got ahold of my information in college, gave up a long time ago. I do have family in…

I started enjoying drawing at a very early age. In order to keep me quiet and happy in church, my mom would allow me to bring paper and drawing supplies to church in a little plastic box. Of course I wasn’t very good at it then. Stick figure backgrounds and characters that were more detailed…

About the time Covid lockdown started, I like almost everyone else took up a culinary hobby. It started with the idea of wanting to color chocolate and create them in festive shapes. I wanted something that looked good and tasted good that I could give friends and family.  Pictured above are a few examples of…

I never expected grief to have such a profound effect on my eating habits. It’s so different from what you see in movies. Eating a bunch of ice cream was neither the problem or solution. In fact the problem was entirely the opposite. Mostly at least. There have been periods of time when food has…

I became aware of the Jaco robotic arm by Kinova when I was much younger and it was still in the trial phase. I saw demos at MDA summer camp and a technology conference over the following years. The robotic arm is a nifty device that mounts on the side of the wheelchair and is…

I struggled starting at a very young age to get a proper night of sleep. The first dream I ever remembered was a nightmare. Bad dreams would follow me often for years. Sometimes I did not want to sleep because of it. I also struggled with mental hyperactivity no matter how tired I felt physically.…

I’m going to come out right from the start before I get anyone’s hopes up: I don’t have a solid answer. Everyone is unique and has ways that work better for them than other people. People often have multiple different ways to feel better as well. I can however share observations and the more important…

I have mentioned that I did very well in school grade wise. High GPA and little need to study. This was not always the case. There was a period of about three and a half years where I did very poorly in almost every study. Nothing happened at home to cause this and my parents…

School was hard for me. I know a lot of people say that, but for me it was for slightly different reasons. All things considered I did very well grades wise. I was mainstreamed and I graduated high school with a 3.97 GPA and was always on honor roll middle school and up. I rarely…