Oh the places I’d go if I had a hot pink Trackchair. I’d muscle through crazy mud pits in the middle of the woods. I’d roll onto curbs without a curb-cut just to show off. Read this entry
Tag: Wheelchair life
2/27/12: Learn Something New: Pushing your butt through the grass (and sand) alive
It’s a scary jungle out there when you can’t walk. WildKat TV’s “how-to” terrain wheelchair videos are just the thing for freshies with no clue. Watch here
2/26/12: Podcast #83 – Canuck Quad Chef Cory Parsons
In episode #83 of No Free Rides, Tiffiny is joined by Cory Parsons, a dynamo chef with quadriplegia who lives on the beautiful, seafood laden Vancouver Island.
2/23/11: Sexy wheelchair dance film to premiere
What some people are calling Dirty Dancing on wheels, Musical Chairs is a romantic comedy set in the world of wheelchair ballroom dancing, directed by Susan Seidelman of Desperately Seeking Susan. Read this blog
2/9/12: What would you tell your teenage self?
If you could go back in time, what would you tell yourself to make the path ahead a bit easier?
2/7/12: Get smarter, watch videos
“How-to” online disability videos make us way more informed than our disabled predecessors and are one of my favorite ways to learn. Read this blog
1/31/12: Woman moves wheelchair car plant to US
What Stacy Zoern, a lawyer, just pulled off down in Pflugerville, Texas should be on front page of The Wall Street Journal. She just moved a Hungarian wheelchair smart car manufacturer to Texas.
1/28/12: Meet forever rocker Jason Becker
Jason Becker, a rising metal guitarist who at 20 was diagnosed with ALS (he played for Cacophony and the David Lee Roth band in the late 1980’s), refuses to raise the white flag and is still composing music.
1/23/12: “Push Girls” coming to TV
A new reality show “Push Girls,” featuring four female wheelchair-users, has been green-lighted by the Sundance Channel. The show will change misconceptions of disability and so much more.
12/31/11: Erasing stereotypes, with your job
From rolling tattoo artists to medical doctors who use wheelchairs, the power of being in a profession the world doesn’t expect is huge.