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I recently had the opportunity to return to UVA Children’s Hospital to speak at a fundraiser.
Click here to view more photos from the event!
Signing a book for Mark Andrews, the guy who taught me how to ski right after I lost my leg.
Here I am with Dr. Kimberly Dunsmore, my doctor from fifteen years ago when I had cancer.
Looking over my notes before my speech. That’s my mom and sister Anna sitting beside me.
Here are a few highlights from a recent interview with Brad Huddleston and Jim Snavely at WBTX.
To watch the full-length interview, including interviews with my parents and brother, please check out Brad’s website.
There are 50,000 new amputees in Haiti as a result of the earthquake.
Here is a new video I made for them:
Learn more about this video: Read More
Just Don’t Fall debuted at #2 on The Washington Post Non-Fiction Bestseller list and #6 on The Denver Post Non-Fiction Bestseller list, meaning that it is now officially a National Bestseller!
Wow!
I am so grateful to all of you who have purchased the book and become such fervent evangelists for it, both in your face-to-face conversations and online, especially on my Facebook page. You are the readers for whom I wrote it, and you are now the reason for its success.
Been doing tons of interviews. A few of my recent favs have included the Bookotron Podcast, Chic Loves Lit, and The Washington Examiner.
My final book signing on Saturday was covered in three newspapers, two radio stations and on two local television stations. Watch the television spots:
A review in The Post! A big moment for me. I cut it out and scanned it:
Unlike some members of the disability community, I was not offended by “Avatar.” In fact, quite the opposite.
I saw the movie with my younger brother. As we sat in the front row examining our 3D glasses and waiting for the movie to begin, my mind flashed back to a Saturday afternoon years before, when my father, brother, and I visited a Virginia theme park. We had snagged three seats on the front row of a virtual reality theater, the sort of hokey attraction where the chairs bounce and wobble based on what’s happening in the movie.
Several awkward minutes passed before a manager walked across the front row and told me that I “wouldn’t be able to participate in this experience” because my disability would make it unsafe. Adrenaline shot into my veins as we argued over whether having one leg would affect the seatbelt’s ability to restrain me during the show. It soon became obvious—with a crowd of viewers watching us—that she was not going to start the movie until I had left the theater. Read More
A great article and interview in the Salt Lake Tribune.
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