I’m excited to announce that I have a guest post on Her Packing List! I hope my story will open the minds of fellow travelers, and inspire more people with disabilities to travel. Please visit their site to read the post:
I am a domestic violence survivor. You can’t tell by looking at me, and you never could. I didn’t have black eyes or bruises. I never went to the hospital and claimed I fell down the stairs. I am a woman with a disability, and I was abused by my former partner, another woman. Domestic…
It’s been a few days and I wanted to post an update on my ordeal with being denied the roll-in shower room that I booked at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Englewood, NJ. We are now in the room that we were supposed to have all along. It became available on Sunday, so we spent…
It’s impossible to miss The Archway museum, a.k.a. the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument, when traveling on the I-80 through Kearney, Nebraska. You seem to be in the middle of nowhere, when suddenly a huge wooden structure spans the highway. Signs exhort you to take the next exit and visit, but offer little explanation of what can…
Inspiration. Lately, it seems like it’s become a four-letter word in the disability community. Phrases like “inspiration porn” get tossed around regularly and the definition seems to be constantly changing, depending on who you ask. But what is inspiration porn, really? Is it possible to have inspirational portrayals of disability that are positive? The term…
I wrote this piece for Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month. Please share it with the parents you know! Dear Parents of Kids with Cerebral Palsy, Thirty-something years ago, my parents were where you are now — raising me, their daughter with spastic quadriplegia cerebral palsy. I was blessed with loving parents who fought for me to…
Fort Cody Trading Post in North Platte, Nebraska is the ultimate tourist trap for those who love roadside attractions and classic Americana I knew I wanted to blog about the Fort Cody Trading Post in North Platte, Nebraska, before I even had a blog. If you know me, you know that ultra kitschy roadside attractions…
