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June 9: Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Blog: Celebrating Ten Years of Marriage Matters

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Published first at the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Blog on June 9, 2017 https://www.christopherreeve.org/blog/life-after-paralysis/celebrating-ten-years-of-marriage-matters This black and white memory was captured just after our wedding in front of the church ten years ago by our friend and photographer Ken Watson. Sitting in the front seat of that light green 1965 Imperial, we could not… Continue reading June 9: Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Blog: Celebrating Ten Years of Marriage Matters

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PUBLISHED on the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Blog: May 11, 2017

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Let’s face it; most parenting is adaptive as we learn to adjust to the little people who come into our lives. Just when we believe we have found an answer, they grow, change, evolve, and send us back to the drawing table. This month, Geoff made a bold mood. He decided, while I was taking… Continue reading PUBLISHED on the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Blog: May 11, 2017

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

Team Hiking: It’s Not About Reaching the Top; It’s What We Build Along the Way

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This is teamwork beneath blue bird skies in April.  Each person in this group is an integral part of what we’ve deemed the best kind of team hiking, the kind where at day’s end you feel like you’ve truly conquered a mountain, and you have.  You are exhausted and smelly and proud and maybe even… Continue reading Team Hiking: It’s Not About Reaching the Top; It’s What We Build Along the Way

Adaptive Adventure · Adaptive Parenting (an adventure itself) · Growing Up New Hampshire · Nature-Based Learning · Through the Power of Sport

March Madness: Tuckerman’s Ravine

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There is so much for me to love about this photo: the Tuckerman Ravine sign behind us, my dad being fit enough to hike up to the Ravine, my then almost two year old niece Ella fiercely gripping 9 week old Carver’s fat little fist, my brother and sister- in- law who trekked in taking… Continue reading March Madness: Tuckerman’s Ravine

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Universal Design: All for One and One for All

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We play with wheelchairs– for fun.  That’s how we roll here in Alpine Village, especially when a gently used one is dropped off as a donation for Eastern Adaptive Sports.  Some people leave handmedown clothes in bags; we are left handmedown wheelchairs because when people need them, they need them.  They are often challenging, time… Continue reading Universal Design: All for One and One for All

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Autumn and Atrophy: Once the Leaves Leave…

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You realize how much your kid listens to your conversations with your spouse when your 6 year old son is worried he’ll get pressure sores on his bum from some new pants which have buttons on the rear pockets.  I try to explain that Dad is afraid of pressure sores because he doesn’t have much… Continue reading Autumn and Atrophy: Once the Leaves Leave…

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#WeAreAllSportsFans #3: Did You Know in Addition to the Paralympics September is Also Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month?

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Doesn’t every little girl want a Paralympic wheelchair racing Barbie doll? Ours did when she was four, and it remains one of her favorite toys because “wheelchair racing Barbie is so fast and has good clothes” in her words.  Echoed further at the Circle Triathlon yesterday, which we compete in as a family, she asked… Continue reading #WeAreAllSportsFans #3: Did You Know in Addition to the Paralympics September is Also Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month?

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#WeAreAllSportsFans

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My second “public support and sharing of a hashtag” ever: #WeAreAllSportsFans.  The first being #endpianoviolence, which if you haven’t checked out Meredith Koch’s story, you ought to.  The goal of the #WeAreAllSportsFans campaign, launched by Mpower Sports and Recreation on Aug. 1, is to reach the international sports community and sports fans worldwide and have… Continue reading #WeAreAllSportsFans

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Thinking about Independence on Independence Day…

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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about personal independence and how it means different things for different people.  We’ve crossed this incredible turning point in our parenting development with Geoff being able to take our kids places alone without the threat of one of them running away or getting some place “inaccessible”where he might not… Continue reading Thinking about Independence on Independence Day…

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Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads, “Stand- in” Dads, Uncle- Dads, and Dads in Heaven

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The above black and white picture of my dad in the sweet aviator shades of 1982, perhaps, is one of my favorite pictures of us for a variety of reasons.  A giant blow up version leftover from his 60th birthday party hangs on my classroom door and students comment regularly on it– about how “badass”… Continue reading Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads, “Stand- in” Dads, Uncle- Dads, and Dads in Heaven