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Books, and talks, and TV…oh my!
January 13, 2012 book, cancer, disability, inspiration, Jonathan Alter, osteosarcoma, self-publishingPart 1 of 3. Books. Warning fair reader…this is very long for a blog post.
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
— Steve Martin, comedian
It is quite an ordeal getting a book out into print and into people’s hands. But this one really had some [...]
Selfish Schmelfish
November 9, 2011 book, disability, fighting back, respect, self-confidence, self-esteemSometime around 2005, as I was writing the first words of my book when it had already been 32 years since my first major smack-down from cancer and amputation, I wrote these words about selfishness:
“The newly disabled, those diagnosed with life-threatening illnesses, and those who have suffered a tremendous loss, need time within themselves to [...]
NECN interview about TV series
October 11, 2011 alcatraz, athlete, athletics, biking, book, cancer, disability, disabled, fighting back, fundraising, inspiration, media coverage, skiingOctober 10 — Newton, MA. Live on NECN talking about the new TV Series Who Says I Can’t. The TV Series pilot is in post-production and will be shown to the public for the first time on Oct 30 at the Fairmont Battery Wharf Hotel in Boston from 1-4 at the Piers Park Sailing Center [...]
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Audio interview with Gayle King on Oprah Radio
September 22, 2011 book, media coverage, speaking, sports, TVOn September 2nd I visited Gayle King (Oprah’s BFF) for a chat on her radio show on Oprah’s Sirius/XM network. Anyone who has listened to Gayle’s show knows she is funny, brash, exuberant. She loved to say the name of the book over and over and made a point of saying WHO…SAYS…I…CAN’T very slowly with [...]
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Fox News piece embedded
August 25, 2011 athletics, book, disability, inspiration, media coverage, sports, TVWatch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
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Filming Kelly Bruno for WSIC TV
July 2, 2011 amputee, athletics, biking, book, disability, disabled, duke, inspiration, prosthetic, prosthetics, self-confidence, self-esteem, sports, swimming, TVFilming for WSIC TV continues and last week was all Kelly Bruno.
Kelly’s quick thumbnail story is that she was born with a birth defect that included not having a fibula or a foot-ankle on her right side. It made her lower leg useless and it was removed at six months of age. She has never [...]
Latest talk abstract
March 18, 2011 athletics, book, cancer, disabled, entrepreneur, fighting back, inspiration, self-confidence, speakingThis talk will weave together the war stories of an incorrigible entrepreneur, how cloud computing will transform the way we get our computing done more dramatically than any other time since computers starting being used by corporations, and how extreme life challenges can lead to extreme responses that help prepare a person for the rough [...]
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The second leg of the stool: 2011 speaking program
February 4, 2011 book, speaking, Uncategorized2011 appears to be lining up as a major transition year for me as I add the necessary two additional legs to the Who Says I Can’t stool.
In 2004 after “telling stories” that contained messages I was trying to hone to anyone who would listen, I started a Blogspot blog with the goal of reaching [...]
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Picked as the Daily Grommet Dec 30th
December 30, 2010 book, inspiration, review, UncategorizedI’m pretty excited to have my book Who Says I Can’t selected as the Daily Grommet for Thursday December 30th. This is actually a pretty big deal as they receive thousands of submissions for only 20 spots a month! And they rarely pick a book so I am doubly honored. Even if you already have the [...]
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