“Rucker is a gifted observer-humorist, unleashing a straight-arrow honesty and a vibrant, penetrating wit while probing the most intimate aspects of contemporary life and human behavior…” (Publisher Weekly)
Mr. Rucker lectures widely on the subject of living with disability. He is also a contributing editor to “New Mobility” magazine and the chairman of the Writers With Disabilities Committee at the WGA. He lives in LA with wife, Ann. They have two sons.
The purpose of a personal blog like this is to write about what’s on your mind. What’s been on my mind lately is the rest of my life. From the moment I became paralyzed via transverse myelitis fifteen years ago this December, I asked the question: does this mean that my life will be automatically – or statistically -- shorter than the ambulatory bloke next door? Read More