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.
Amazing People Doing Amazing Things
Often times here on this blog, I have quarreled with social media in front of you. How uncouth! While it’s true that social media and…
Once in a Lifetime
One of my favorite Talking Heads songs is Once in a Lifetime. Lately this stanza has been resonating: You may ask yourself, what is that…
I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Signed Off
I often wonder what a poet like Emily Dickinson would make of today’s online world. In the 19th century she wrote a poem about the…
Sorry, but I like my phone a little better than you
When you get involved in online communication, it’s very easy to quickly reach a point where you are communicating with people all of the time.…
Needing the Illusion of Grandeur to Be Real
In today’s world, we are bombarded with bad news. Murders, holes in the ozone, wars, people who are starving, people who are homeless, bad unemployment…
Why do we post the things we do to the online world?
Back in 2010, I think, I decided that I was done with Facebook. OK, this wasn’t the first time I had come to that conclusion…
A Letter To Those Of You With 1,500 Twitter Followers Or Fewer
Yesterday, shortly after the events in Boston started to unfold, a person who is very well known online still had their automated posts flowing into…
Rootless
About a year ago, Olivier Blanchard wrote a post called Social Media 1918. It’s an amazing post (obviously, if it is still on my mind…
Defining Social Media Friendships
If you have been around me much, you know that I’ve been very pensive regarding this whole social media…thing. There is of course the business…
A Letter To Those Of You Struggling With Infertility
Dear You, I know you are probably trying to stay anonymous. They call infertility one of those “silent” things people deal with. It’s too hard…