You know, meeting 1 new person everyday can either be a great thing or … It can be a not so great thing. My new person today definitely fit the underwhelming mold of “not so great.” One of the most useful quotes that I’ve believed in on this journey called life is “it’s not always …
Category: Community
WMATA + Caring.
This post is a long-form post that is a story about two people I met last night, “Ms. David” and “Michael,” and both are employees of WMATA, DC’s mass transit system. While it is long, if you do happen to read the entire post, you will find stories of customer service, community service, and … …
The kids just give me the feels.
I’m lucky to routinely be surrounded by professional educators, especially K-12 educators, on a very regular basis. The patience, passion, and dedication that a great educator at any level must have for their students is awe-inspiring. Quite frankly, I sometimes don’t believe that I have one of those qualities…it’s the one I deem most important: …
“I’m a Deaf Uber Partner.”
I haven’t talked about it much on the blog, but most people in my day-to-day life know how particularly smitten I became with the ABC Family show Switched at Birth over the past couple weeks. Set aside the very family drama-high school nature of the show, I’ve become really impressed by their incorporation of not …
National Police Week.
With everything going in the media (and please trust, the aforementioned link is but ONE, and only ONE, example of that “everything”) concerning law enforcement, I wanted to take a moment to recognize many of the law enforcement officials I know personally. This country’s law enforcement network is one of the largest, most comprehensive, and …
Stranger Dinner
Yesterday, I had one of the best experiences I’ve had in a very long time. It was one of those Stranger Dinners that I have frequently explained here on HESONWHEELS. For those of you who aren’t familiar, and also to give it a fresh explanation (the concept has evolved a bit since the first time …
The first quarter of 1 Second Everyday 2015.
Especially since the Austin trip, many people have been learning more and asking about my 1 second everyday project. As you may already know, this is a project that I adopted to record 1 second of my life everyday for the calendar year of 2015. I was inspired by a TED talk by Cesar Kuriyama …
Honored to be appointed by Virginia Governor McAuliffe.
I never thought I’d be able to say that I was an appointee to a gubernatorial administration. Even more importantly, I never thought I’d be able to say that I am a gubernatorial appointee working toward quelling his own hangups and admitted anxiety about working with others with disabilities. But here I am. Last summer …