Pipecleaner Dreams

Pictured right, Australia and Canada playing a wheelchair rugby game Ronnie loves playing so many different sports - basketball, softball,...

Sometimes you can do everything right, and things still don't go the way you want. Ronnie visited his nephrologist last week, and the...

My city has been hosting the National Veterans Wheelchair Games this week, and that has provided many opportunities for Ronnie and his team...

First there was basketball. Then came lacrosse. Now it's softball... (Do you know why the ball in wheelchair softball is bigger than...

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the new show on the Sundance channel called Push Girls. It's a reality show about four women who are friends and w...

I'm still having a very hard time convincing Ronnie he is capable of more - capable of independence - capable of achieving a life of nor...

Back in 2009, I wrote a post about a phone call I received from a Navy recruiter . This recruiter wanted to talk to my daughter, Jessica a...

Why did Ronnie's school team feel like a hearing test was necessary? Any one of the team members could have stood behind him, yelled ...

Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away! You have brains in your head. You have feet in y...

Finally, a decision was made yesterday. Ronnie will be coming back to our neighborhood school for the next school year. At the end of last ...

I'd gotten spoiled the last few years. All my IEP meetings were at the same school with the same school staff, and everyone understood ...

When Ashley was in elementary and middle school, I constantly had to prove her abilities. She was viewed as a child with many deficits rath...

This video could word for word be about my son Ronnie. Well, if you substitute wheelchairs for legs! I have heard the same words from Ronn...

We traveled to Smithfield, North Carolina this past weekend for Ronnie's wheelchair basketball tournament. The weather was beautiful. ...

This has got to be one of the coolest kids I have ever seen! Funny thing, I could easily superimpose Ronnie's face over this kid's ...

Ronnie loves the Three Stooges. He loves anything where people fall down, trip, get hit, stumble, etc. He will burst out laughing whenever...

Ronnie is enjoying his birthday breakfast from McDonalds! Happy 17th, son!

Today begins the first day of my two week vacation! TWO WEEKS! The last time I had two weeks off from work was for maternity leave for my ...

Just when I thought I only had one school bus battle to fight, another rears its ugly head. Now what, you ask? Well, for the last three day...