It’s a guy thing—you walk into a room of friends and you say your hellos. You are most polite to the folks you don’t know well, or the ones you don’t like; your closest friends...

The first time I met Greg Hughes was during our annual fundraising gala in New York City. It was at the end of the evening, and he was tearing up the dance floor with his girlfriend, now wife, Jennife...

On his 30th birthday, Jon O’Connor fell into the Chicago River, hit something and broke C3/4 and became a quadriplegic. He spent several months at RIC (Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) and t...

The first time I met Marilyn Hamilton, she blew me away—literally. I was at a DC dinner and she has spotted someone she needed to talk to and, I’m telling you, a radar gun would have pick...

Luke Vogel was 16 years old. It was Tuesday, December 11, 2007, and after school he was going to try a new jump on the slopes that he’d heard about.

It took a horrid turn, his skies tipped ...

When I told Bernadette I wanted to dedicate mile 13 to her, she promptly replied: “Is that where the queen’s castle is?” When it came time to talk to her, she had already investigat...

The last marathon I ran, in 2008, came also on the heels of (bad pun intended) my cherished NY Giants beating the Patriots to win the Super Bowl.
"All in" was one of the Giants' mantra...

Antonia was not yet eight years old when she met Dana Reeve at a rally in Washington, D.C. seven years ago this month. At age two, her family’s car was struck by a drunk driver as they returned ...

The call came in cold, like so many to our office, from a guy who claimed to be a radio executive who had broken his neck some months earlier. He wanted a slot with Team Reeve for the NYC Marathon. We...

On October 16th, 2010, I was traveling to Los Angeles to attend the 7th annual Life Rolls On Night By The Ocean fundraising dinner. A year prior, this unique organization became a subsidiary of Reeve,...

A few years ago, our amazing communications executive, Maggie Goldberg, persuaded me that I needed to get with the times and join Facebook. Aside from the perils and/or joys of rediscovering people fr...

When you first meet Scott Remington, there is an instant bond and connection and you feel like you’ve known him all your life. Perhaps you too know someone who always lifts your spirits –...

Coming from a family of overachievers who made their way through an ethic of working as hard and as fast as you can, and taking all of life in, Francesco Clark, at age 24, was just beginning a career ...

Bill Cawley is the Director of the Peer & Family Support Program at the Reeve Foundation. Bill was injured on August 28, 1992 diving off a dock during vacation at the Jersey shore. He’d ...