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The photo is only half-comic, but you already knew that, right?
by Allen Rucker on Thursday, February 07, 2013
Great photo! Been there, done that.
by Anthony on Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Please excuse the typos and spelling. I type only with my left hand and I was right handed. I notice extra letters in w...
by Barbara on Thursday, January 03, 2013
It saddens me that I grew-up in a strong country that truly cared about it's citizens as well as the citizens of the wor...
by Barbara on Thursday, January 03, 2013
Donna, here is a great piece from a recent New York Times about how the movie is about a lot more that sex and disabilit...
by Allen Rucker on Thursday, December 27, 2012
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“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.
Archive for November 2011
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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In my dotage, I’ve come to enjoy reading peer-review medical research papers with titles like “Psychologic Factors and Risk of Mortality After Spinal Cord Injury” or “Comparison of the influence of different rehabilitation programmes on clinical, spirometric, and spiroergometric parameters in patients with multiple sclerosis.”

Okay, these titles don’t shout, “Read me now!” nor is the prose the heart-pounding John Grisham variety. Read More

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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You may have read about this – it made the news about three weeks ago – but I found it to be a very telling story about disability in our times and I can’t stop thinking about it. New York mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that he was rabidly opposed to more taxi cabs in his city that are equipped to handle disabled passengers. They’re too expensive, he said, too heavy, and have crappy suspension. Ergo, “the average person riding in them finds them really uncomfortable.” Read More