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A Moment of Not Dealing with Disability

There are days I just want to walk. Moments, really. Moments that seemingly come out of nowhere. A sudden, usually if not always overwhelming urge to be able to simply stand up and go wherever I want without thought or hesitation. It happened just yesterday afternoon at the ballpark as I looked down at the field. We were early, and the vast majority of the seats in front of us were empty. Kids and far too many adults crowded down by the fence or railing or just the barrier that separates fans from the field. They were seeking autographs, mostly from Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper. But I really didn’t care about them. I don’t think I wanted to be with them, doing what they were doing. There was something about all those empty seats. They seemed a crisp blue in the sunlight, leading to the field of perfectly manicured grass. I was watching the Phillies Phanatic doing his thing out on the open field as a few players stretched and ran sprints. The big green guy seemed happy to playfully

Latest article on the Huffington Post Impact section: Taking the ADA Out to the Ballgame

Here’s a link to my latest article on the Huffington Post Impact section: Taking the ADA Out to the Ballgame, http://huff.to/1H13b2B . I was very happy to get to interview Greg Smith, a strong voice in the disability community who I’ve followed since before following was something you did on social media, about his ADAFanCam initiative. I actually interviewed Smith back in 1999 about his syndicated radio show on disability issues for a regular article I was writing as a freelancer for the Philadelphia Inquirer covering the disability community. The article about the only show on radio discussing disability issues at the time was rejected because it wasn’t a local story even though the show was available online, which obviously included the Philadelphia area. For various reasons, it turned out to be the last article I submitted for the column. I tried to come “full circle” in a way by submitting this article to the Inquirer, but it didn’t quite work out. (I knew it was a long