In June 2025 Forbes Magazine published an Accessibility 100 List.
The idea was to highlight leaders in the disability community, but there were a lot of corporations included, and a lot of people who, while allies, were not disabled themselves. It got me to thinking that I wanted to highlight all of the amazing people in the community who are disabled but still are making things happen. That is how this website was born.
#PassionPlayers Josh Gippin
Today’s feature for #PassionPlayers is my cousin, Josh Gippin. Josh has always been someone I look up to (I also adore the fact that he…
#PassionPlayers Ty Sullivan
I feel like I have known Ty forever, but in reality I think we have only been friends for five years. I met him via…
The Short Fuse – Thoughts on #DwarfismAwarenessMonth
Last year around this time, I read the story of Lamar Hawkins III. He was a middle school student who according to his mother was…
#PassionPlayers Steve Brightman
I met Steve close to ten years ago in my old hometown of Akron, Ohio. I learned pretty quickly that Steve is an extremely gifted…
#passionplayers – Molly Cantrell-Kraig
When I thought about the concept of starting a conversation about passion here on my blog, I knew that one of the people I would…
Dear @DirecTV – Your Randy Moss Ad is HORRIBLY Offensive
This is a post I would have hoped I would not have to write. Unfortunately, it seems that insensitivity still rules the roost. If you…
Hamlet at the Barbican – Reimagined was fine with me
There were a lot of reviews of Sonia Friedman’s Hamlet production floating around in the month or so preceding the moment when I would get…
A new project – #PassionPlayers
Do you find passion contagious? I certainly do. When someone starts talking about something and you see that look in their eyes – I love…
#NoKidHungry – How Can You Help?
How many times have you looked in the fridge or in the cupboards and lamented that there is nothing to eat? There might be the…
Sometimes abandonment is a rescue mission
Recently a friend of mine posted a meme to Facebook. It said something along the lines of, “I might get angry at you but I…