I have a simple philosophy: The only limits we possess are those that we impose upon ourselves or that we allow others to impose upon us!
As a 64-year old postpolio and cancer survivor, I know what it is to be challenged... daily. All challenges and changes in our lives mold us and our characters by the way we approach and handle them.
As a Texan with disabilities, I have known both discrimination and acceptance, and seek through advocacy to find new avenues for dialogue and legislative action for my fellow Texans with disabilities.
My greatest challenge was watching my beloved wife of 24 years, Kate, die from breast and brain cancer in 2009. Through her death, she showed all of us what it means to suffer and die consciously in God's Grace.
I believe we must be deeply grateful for every blessing we have BEFORE it is taken away or lost or forgotten, whether it is one's health, one's spirit, or one's freedom. With that gratitude, we are capable of fighting harder to save ourselves, our state, our country, and our world from those persons, institutions, and policies that would diminish or harm them.
President Theodore Roosevelt said, "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
Some of My Adventures
