Archive for disability Category
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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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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How the Today Show happened
August 25, 2011 athletics, disability, inspiration, media coverage, sports, TVThe Today Show segment has come and gone and most people that will read this have seen it (http://on.msnbc.com/qDUOQa just in case). Here I want to describe how it came about and what I think it might do and even a little bit about what the back scene was like.
My partner in the TV venture, [...]
2011 Alcatraz Sharkfest swim
July 4, 2011 alcatraz, amputee, athlete, athletics, disability, disabled, fundraising, inspiration, swimmingThe Alcatraz Sharkfest swim was 25 June 2011.
This was my 18th attempt to swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco. I did finish; I only say “attempt” because all the blather about Alcatraz as this formidable escape-proof prison calls all the escape efforts “attempts”. But of course, we are wearing wetsuits (mostly), are doing it during [...]
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 [...]
TV profile: Hugh Herr
June 3, 2011 climbing, disability, disabled, fighting back, inspiration, microprocessor knee, prosthetic, prosthetics, self-confidence, self-esteem, TVThe youngest of five siblings from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Hugh Herr was a prodigy rock climber: by age eight, he had scaled the face of the 11,627-foot Mount Temple in the Canadian Rockies, and by 17 he was acknowledged to be one of the best climbers in the United States.
In January 1982, while attempting to summit [...]
Katie Lynch award
May 21, 2011 disability, disabled, inspiration, respect, speakingOn May 20th I was the recipient of the 2nd annual Katie Lynch award for most inspirational speaker in Newton. At a breakfast event sponsored by the Mayor of Newton as part of the Newton Understanding Our Differences program, the Lynch’s themselves presented me with a most beautiful plaque. The award is named after [...]
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Next TV profile: Kelly Bruno
May 5, 2011 amputee, athlete, athletics, biking, disability, disabled, prosthetic, prosthetics, running, swimming, TVKelly Bruno, age 27 from Boca Raton, FL, is a Duke graduate and now a medical student at UNC Chapel Hill. She is also a world-record holding amputee runner and triathlete, a former contestant on the TV series Survivor: Nicaragua, and the next person we will profile in Who Says I Can’t the TV Series.
Kelly [...]
