Shortly after 11 AM on Veteran’s Day – 11/11/11 – as the jet aircraft vapors from the military flyover still lined the sky overhead, the mayor of my small town stood and proudly made a proclamation. To the hundreds of gatherers, including veterans from wars…
Speaking of my almost forgotten and overlooked trip to Pittsburgh for the National Veterans Wheelchair Games this summer, I remembered one more cool thing I wanted to share. OK, two. Look off in the distance in the baseball stadium picture above. See the yellow bridge?…
I’m a bit late in sharing these photos (I’ll admit it, I totally forgot they were even on the camera’s memory stick) so please turn your calendars back to early August. The National Veterans Wheelchair Games made its 2011 stop in Pittsburgh and here’s a…
If you have just 5 or 6 free minutes, can I ask you to check out this video please? It’s a pretty cool shoot with Jason Mraz and a friend of mine named Jessie Billauer. A few years ago, Jessie and I were exchanging stories…
Every, well, once-in-a-lifetime, something amazingly life-affirming rolls your way. It gives meaning to the countless hours, days, weeks, months and years we plug away doing what we’re doing to simply keep the train called life heading in the right direction. Earlier this month, Tufts University…
During the summer of 2010, I was introduced to all thee gadgets and gizmos of adaptive kayaking during a clinic at the National Veterans Wheelchair Games in Colorado. Up to that point, my experience with adaptive kayaking had been camping seats and duct tape. Having…
Many of you know I volunteer as a Director of No Barriers USA, a unique non-profit that helps increase the opportunities people have to get active and experience the many facets of the outdoors. We are about art, music, culture, science, technology and, of course,…
If you are one of the tens of followers of my blog (who isn’t related to me and has to follow it because you’re family) then you may remember a few months ago I shared a post about missing this year’s Boston Marathon. You remember…
Wisdom of the Wave: Laird Hamilton shares 10 life lessons learned from surfing by Melanie D.G. Kaplan Surfing legend Laird Hamilton says the ocean is one of the greatest teachers. “Simple laws and philosophies can be traced to the purity of the ocean,” says Hamilton,…