Although it’s early in the process, I’m really enjoying my time in the Flagship program of Leadership Winston Salem. Before I applied, I was told I was the first person with a severe disability to participate. That’s why I’m …

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Recently I had posted on Facebook that I was experiencing writer’s block. That was probably closer than half right.  I was experiencing a lack of ideas, which I guess is the definition of writer’s block. But I think I had …

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Maybe I was naïve, but I remember thinking that people with disabilities would never be targeted in a mass murder before the attack in San Bernardino.  I thought that most moral codes in religion would prevent people from targeting people …

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