A Love Letter to Polynesian Women

A Love Letter to Polynesian Women

Dear Polynesian Women, One by one as you gracefully place the rainbows of intricately designed leis upon me, I lose sight of all surroundings and crash into the wall.  Yet I feel the presence of your mana, enfolding me in an aura of exotic fragrances.  Your delicate...
A Love Letter to Native American Women

A Love Letter to Native American Women

Dear Native American Women, I’ve always longed to see the autumn sunrays, embracing your rich honey complexion.  It melts into your cherry-blushed cheeks like the soft caresses of a perfectly crafted feather.  Your enchanting rhythm of kneading in radiance is an arrow...
A Love Letter to Hebrew Women

A Love Letter to Hebrew Women

Dear Hebrew Women, Shalom, yafa sheli.  Your beauty of holiness is the only way to describe the miracle behind your glory, being fearfully and wonderfully made.  I find traces of your perfection wherever my heart follows, even as the blessed warmth of God that...
A Love Letter to Mediterranean Women

A Love Letter to Mediterranean Women

Dear Mediterranean Women, With quiet whispers of an ocean breeze swirling into the transparent veil of your window, I watch on as it floats about your hushing fingertips.  Upon the balcony in your porcelain disguise, mysteries are revealed when you uncover the...
The Science of Human Consciousness

The Science of Human Consciousness

What would happen if a mentally retarded person was possessed by a demonic entity?  Would he/she still be comprised of a childlike mind, or gain a higher level of IQ? According to a number of stories regarding supernatural phenomena, humans will gain a partial amount...
The Handjob Incident

The Handjob Incident

How do people in wheelchairs take a leak?  You’re probably thinking urinals, or even diapers… oh, hell no!  Instead, I use condom catheters, like jet fighter pilots, since it’s obviously a war crime to pee on the enemy. When I first discovered them, it was quite the...
A Few Words for Duchenne

A Few Words for Duchenne

Dear Duchenne muscular dystrophy, This journey has been a long and winding road, and not only for me, but you as well.  Both of us continue fighting relentlessly with the finish line moving further away.  I know it might come as a surprise, but I wanted to say thank...
Positivity 101

Positivity 101

Putting on a smiling face amid a chronic disorder that takes away every ounce of strength, is incredibly difficult, but who ever said that life was easy?  With Duchenne muscular dystrophy, you work so much harder for rewards, yet despite how the physical keeps getting...
This is My Life: A Brief History of Growing Up

This is My Life: A Brief History of Growing Up

Growing up was quite the experience; a struggle perhaps, but I had the time of my life that provided many opportunities.  The story begins in my toddler days when my enlarged calves were noticed.  It’s one of the symptoms of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a genetic...
How Not to Be a Crippled Loser

How Not to Be a Crippled Loser

So many wheelchair people ask how I managed to “get [myself] out there”, despite my physical disability; how I got over the self-consciousness that most of us face.  The truth is that for some years, I had become an incompetent person, which, surprisingly, isn’t...