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Latest — 24 Nov 2025

Burger Birthday

Join me on Saturday for Oakland's best burgers, chicken sandwiches, and wings at Sideshow Kitchen. Sideshow has been a key hub for the North Oakland community for the last eight years–serving great food while supporting local entrepreneurship, mutual aid, and social justice initiatives at the same time.

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Still Rolling Along

It's been over a month but there's really not much to report. I guess that's not true, but it feels like life is unremarkable these days (in the most literal sense) and that's a good thing. My job is great. I bought

Finding Joy

Fundraising

So this year I've set up two targets for fundraising within the SCI community, focused on getting folks with disabilities back into sports: The Kelly Brush Foundation and BORP Adaptive Sports and Recreation. You may have heard me talk about BORP before. They are a charitable organization based

Head Shots

Randy connected me with Scott Hoag to take my new professional headshots. Scott is amazing and you should hire him for all of your photo needs: Rockwell CreativeRockwell CreativeOVERVIEW Anyway, here are the photos:

Big News

It's been nearly a month since I've posted here... or anywhere else for that matter. I'm about to start posting again, starting with a big announcement tomorrow. But because I love each and every one of you, I'm writing this now to

Achievement Unlocked

About a month ago, I issued a challenge to a bunch of my design-minded friends. Specifically, could they recommend a bag company that makes a durable but stylish bag that I could easily attach to my wheelchair. Why do this? Aren't there already bags specifically made for the

Where is all that time going?!

Hey folks. Sorry we have been super quiet over here. Life, as is its wont, takes over and everything gets busy and all you can do is ride the wave and hope it comes in to shore. We've been to an amazing destination wedding in the redwoods (which

Driving Day

On Monday morning we packed up to head back to Oakland. This mainly consisted of Dacia packing up 90% of the stuff in the parents' room, walking over to the kids room to discover that they were still in bed, telling them to get up, walking downstairs to get

Sugar Rush Sunday

apologies for the delay, busy family life got in the way. One of the only things Arthur requested as part of our return trip to Portland this summer was, "we have to eat at Slappy Cakes." Yep. Slappy Cakes. Slappy... Cakes. Slappycakes. It just doesn't get

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From the ICU, to the grind of rehab and beyond, this blog captures the daily victories, struggles, and the incredible community that makes it all possible.

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