Adaptive Hunting

Clint Lindemann, a C4-C5 quadriplegic, is an avid outdoorsman who says that hunting has impacted his life in more ways than one. At the age of 15, Clint was injured in a hunting accident which resulted in his paralysis. Clint…

Rediscovering Sexuality After Paralysis

Rediscovering her sexual identity was an important aspect of life for Ali after sustaining a spinal cord injury. Ali is a quadriplegic with limited hand function who is paralyzed from the chest down. She took to online dating to find…

Advocate Turned Politician Willis Washington

Politics had never been a thing for Willis Washington. Yet Washington, 44 and a T11 paraplegic, found himself going door to door, raising money and calling voters, trying to convince them to elect him to Oklahoma’s House of Representatives.

Dancing After Spinal Cord Injury

Marka Danielle is a professional dancer. When she sustained a spinal cord injury, she started training in wheelchair dancing all over the United States. Marka says that her injury has only deepened her passion for dance. “After my injury, there…

Loving Your Body As it is Means Loving Your Life

Gaelynn Lea is not here to inspire. The musician has genetic disability Osteogenesis Imperfecta aka Brittle Bone Disease. She discovered her love of music in the fourth grade. “I really wanted to play the cello at the beginning,” Gaelynn shares.…

The Power of Mentoring

Julie Hill is a volunteer, skills trainer, and mentor to fellow people who have sustained spinal cord injuries. In 1990, Julie herself was paralyzed from the waist down from a car crash. She says that having a strong support system of…

Accessible Ferry Experience

Roadtrips can be liberating and some view them as embarking on new challenges. Martyn Sibley, a wheelchair user, shares this perspective on accessible cruising as he sailed on a Brittany Ferries cruise ship from Plymouth to Santander for an Accessible Tourism…

Four Tips for the Quadriplegic Traveler

Gilbert Tan, 56, has been to his fair share of countries. The singer-songwriter and mouthpainter often goes on cruises with his wife, Irene, where he gets to explore several cities in one trip. Having been a tetraplegic for the last…

Blazing a Trail Through the Viru Bog in Estonia

Intrepid traveler Cory Lee is cruising towards adventure yet again. During a Scandinavian and Russian cruise in August 2017, the wheelchair using wanderer had the opportunity to set his wheels on Estonian soil for the second time. Cory, his mom,…

Experiencing Deep Loss and Transformation

Glenn Hartz knows what it means to experience deep loss. After a period of general decline in health, in 2006 he lost much of his strength and right-side mobility to transverse myelitis. As he worked through the dynamic changes in his life,…