Month: July 2017

"No Child Left Inside" · Accessibility · Adaptive Adventure · Adaptive Parenting (an adventure itself) · Family life · Through the Power of Sport

July 27 Christopher and Dana Reeve Blog: Grit, Resiliency , and Resolve

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When having a conversation with anyone– with or without a spinal cord injury– we garner information about their attitude, sense of grit, and/or capacity for resiliency within a few minutes. I’ve become slightly obsessed with this concept of GRIT reading many articles over the past few years identifying grit as one of the qualifying characteristics… Continue reading July 27 Christopher and Dana Reeve Blog: Grit, Resiliency , and Resolve

"No Child Left Inside" · Conversations with Kids · Education · Growing Up New Hampshire

“Dear Mary from Birmingham” Letters: Batch 1

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Just 24 hours ago, many of us who were spending the night anywhere in a tent in Northern New Hampshire were cursing the weather people along with Mother Nature herself.  The rain was supposed to end.  Cooler than normal temps meant 50 degrees but not 40.  These girls pictured above not only hiked for 5… Continue reading “Dear Mary from Birmingham” Letters: Batch 1

"No Child Left Inside" · Books · Conversations with Kids · Education · Growing Up New Hampshire · Nature-Based Learning · Through the Power of Sport

The Weight We Carry

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One of my favorite American novels is The Things We Carried by Tim O’Brien.  In the first chapter, he writes about what they carry in their packs.  Today, while hiking we teased one young lady for packing an entire jumbo box of goldfish in her pack along with a pudding cup, not her best choice… Continue reading The Weight We Carry

"No Child Left Inside" · Accessibility · Adaptive Adventure · Adaptive Parenting (an adventure itself) · Family life · Through the Power of Sport

Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Blog for July 13, 2017: a Different Kind of Independence

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Independence for those of us living a wheelchair lifestyle means different things for different people. For my husband, Geoff, independence is creativity paired with accessibility. We live in a beautiful place where so much is accessible to our family, a place where adaptive programs like Eastern Adaptive Sports and New England Disabled Sports and Adaptive… Continue reading Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Blog for July 13, 2017: a Different Kind of Independence

Books · Conversations with Kids · Family life · True North

Our Power to Attach and Release

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The above car is my dad’s, and he’s having a hard time letting go of her, despite not really driving this former beauty since I was a teenager.  Now this rusty impersonator of a bygone era goes into storage at Arnold’s Antiques and Collectibles around November and comes out again in April.   Coincidentally this… Continue reading Our Power to Attach and Release

"No Child Left Inside" · Adaptive Parenting (an adventure itself) · Family life · Growing Up New Hampshire · Mom is Doing Her Best

Summer Mother Mojo

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Writer wife teacher mom is on summer vacation!  Two weeks in now, and I’d like to say I’m totally relaxed, reading books by the river, watching my kids frolic with one another in the yard, “Mom, this is the best summer ever! Can we just stay home and play outside all day? ” Yeah, no,… Continue reading Summer Mother Mojo