“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.
I swear, if it wasn’t for that little blue placard most of us have hanging from our rearview mirrors, the ambulatory world out there would never give us a second thought. For some reason, it boils the blood of many an average burgher to see one of us zip into that choice spot in front of Home Depot or Ikea while they have to park maybe 20 feet further from the front door and lug their tired bodies all that way. The very common response, at least in California: weasel one of those placards by hook or crook and grab that spot before you do. Read More
If you haven’t checked out “Downton Abbey,” the smash English drawing room drama now in its second season on PBS, you might want to give it a look. Set in and around a humungous country manor house in the early decades of last century, it is what you might call British upper-class porn. Tune in and indulge in a luxurious existence where lords and ladies dress for dinner served by a staff of solicitous servants and life is just one refined pleasure and which-pearls-to-wear quandary after another. If the Great Depression had Busby Berkeley movies as escapist entertainment, The Great Recession of today has “Downton Abbey.” Read More
