My Dad opened my BofA savings book in 3rd grade to prove a point I wouldn't understand for twenty years. He wanted to show me that the spare change sitting in my piggy bank could be worth more than just sitting there. In full disclosure, that change usually came from my grandparents. When I asked my parents for an allowance like my schoolmates supposedly got, their policy was: "Why should we pay you to live in our house?" I digress. Going to the bank felt like entering a cath

My friend Greg once roasted me in the middle of a briefing for still using an iPhone 8. He wasn't wrong to laugh. But the joke got me thinking about a computer with 4 kilobytes of memory that once landed two men on the moon — and what "enough" actually asks of us.

A childhood memory of a jungle gym, a fall, and a friend who let go of my hand. Decades later, a road trip back to that schoolyard changed how I saw it — and how much of my life I'd built on guarding against a threat that was already gone.

I was the tenth pick, every time — until my dad cut a broomstick, fashioned a hose into a batting tee, and gave me a place to practice a game no one would teach me. Years later, I got my first real at-bat. First pitch. I didn't miss.

I wasn't looking for anything when the email arrived. Greg Moomjy sent it from Delaware, where he was keynoting an opera conference on accessibility. He was in the middle of his own work, important work, and he still stopped to think about me. One forward. No explanation needed. That's the kind of people you want around you. Greg and co-founder Marianna Mott Newirth are the driving force behind Opera Praktikos, New York City's first disability-affirmative opera company where.

Every morning in New Jersey started the same way. I rolled out of bed onto the floor, army crawled to the shower, and turned the water as hot as I could stand just to loosen the muscles around my hip enough to make it to the NJ Transit train into the city. I was munching ibuprofen like Pez candies. Not occasionally. Daily. For years. I have cerebral palsy (CP). I was diagnosed around age two. CP affects the part of the brain that controls muscle movement. It is the most commo