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Hugh Herr rock climbing for WSIC TV

The climb known as High Exposure in Mohonk Preserve an hour south of Albany on the cliffs called The Gunks was awesome. The weather was perfect. The group of 4 guides from Mt Skills Climbing were utterly fantastic. They were in charge of safety and getting camera guys into perfect positions; and at times coaching [...]

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Guest post: Why Disabled Athletes Inspire the Able-Bodied

Bio: Alexis Bonari is a freelance writer and researcher for College Scholarships, where recently she’s been researching culinary scholarships as well as republican school scholarships. Whenever she gets some free time, she enjoys watching a funny movie or curling up with a good book.

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The second leg of the stool: 2011 speaking program

2011 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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Who Says You Can’t wear this hat?

Just created these awesome hats. There are now up on the Who Says I Can’t store here.

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Are you more inquisitive than a 5th grader?

So I am speaking about two or three times a month to local fifth grade classes. Newton has a program called Understanding Our Differences that focuses on exposing the kids to people with disabilities. It’s a lot of fun to talk to these kids. They have a lot of great questions after I talk to [...]

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Picked as the Daily Grommet Dec 30th

I’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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The Cloud at Your Service

My newest book The Cloud at Your Service will be shipping on September 28th. The publisher is Manning. It is orderable now on Amazon here. And you can get a feel for the book from chapter 1 which I am posting for anyone to grab here:

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My next book: The Cloud at Your Service

When I have not been training for swimming and biking, doing my day job at BAE, my little Rocketvox startup nights and weekends, and promoting Who Says I Can’t as well as speaking about it, I (along with my co-author Arthur Mateos) have been working hard at my next “technical” book called The Cloud at Your Service. [...]

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Humiliation and intimidation of amputees by TSA

I travel by plane almost once per week. So you can imagine that not only do I have a lot of experience going through security but I frequently tell the agent what the next step in the process is. And its all fairly routine and clean albeit a bit of a hassle and time-consuming. But [...]

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Can’t a poem by Edgar Guest (1881 – 1959)

Can’t is the worst word that’s written or spoken;
Doing more harm here than slander and lies;
On it is many a strong spirit broken,
And with it many a good purpose dies.
It springs from the lips of the thoughtless each morning
And robs us of courage we need through the day:
It rings in our ears like a [...]