Posts – Wheels On Down the Road

Wheels On Down the Road

Disability Rights & Advocacy, Life & Perspective

Apartment Hunting While Disabled: The Real Barriers

There’s no checkbox on any apartment listing that says “wheelchair accessible.” After 17 years in the same unit, I’m facing a lease renewal and realizing just how small the circle gets when accessibility, cost, location, and parking all have to… Read more →

08/26/26
Life & Perspective

The Rain That Wouldn’t Stop

August 18 has come again. For some people, that is just a date on the calendar. For me, it is the moment my world changed. This post lives honestly in the space of grief, so if that’s not where you… Read more →

08/18/26
Life & Perspective

An Adventure in Getting Home

The commute home was an adventure, and it started before I even left work. Paper Over the Button Just this morning, my office installed an automatic door, so all I have to do is push a button to get in… Read more →

08/13/26
Life & Perspective, Poems

Dads

Father’s Day has a way of making you think. Not just about the dad you have, but about all the different shapes a dad can take. This one’s for the complicated relationships, the quiet love, and the empty chairs. Read more →

06/21/26
Disability Rights & Advocacy, Life & Perspective

Why Can’t Pants Just Fit?

A size should be a size. Every brand, every year, every time. So why isn’t it? On shopping in the boys department as an adult wheelchair user, keeping a reference chart just to buy pants, and why clothing sizing is… Read more →

06/06/26
Life & Perspective, Off the Beaten Path

The Song You Didn’t Hear

There’s a particular kind of magic that lives inside the best songs. Not the kind you notice right away. The kind that waits. I’ve been thinking about what it means when a song holds two truths at once, and what… Read more →

05/31/26
Life & Perspective

Watching Shrimp Videos and Doing the Math

I’m back in the YouTube rabbit hole of shrimp tanks. Five years ago I kept fish and shrimp, and eventually the cleaning got to be too much. Now I’m doing the same quiet math I do with every hobby and… Read more →

05/23/26
Life & Perspective

Wondering Who Would They Be

Today would have been Dempsey’s 10th birthday. Birthdays in grief do something different from anniversaries: they don’t mark what was lost. They mark what was never had. A reflection on the question I keep carrying, and the particular shape of… Read more →

05/11/26
Disability Rights & Advocacy, Life & Perspective

When the Bus Doesn’t Pull Up: Advocating from the Back of the Bus

Getting to a Minnesota United game shouldn’t be a whole thing. But between a bus that wouldn’t pull to the curb, construction barricades blocking the sidewalk, and a breakdown on the freeway, it kind of was. Sometimes even disability advocates… Read more →

05/02/26
Disability Rights & Advocacy, Life & Perspective

Grieving the End of The Things We Leave Unfinished

I finished The Things We Leave Unfinished at work yesterday and spent five minutes staring at my computer screen in shock before I could do anything else. There’s the normal end-of-book grief, and then there’s the kind that sends you… Read more →

05/01/26

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