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The 1979-80 school year was a bittersweet period in my life. I was about to turn 17 that spring, so I was perhaps one of the oldest ninth graders at Riviera Junior High School.  The fact that I was one or two years older than most of my peers was a source of extreme embarrassment […]

When a 6-year-old Woodlands, Texas boy with cerebral palsy told his mother he wanted to try running, she did her best to get him into the sport. Apparently, the decision has paid off. Runner’s World reports that Reed Kotalik understands that his leg don’t work properly, but that didn’t stop him from getting into a sport that would […]

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ― Anaïs Nin Late Fall – 1979 When I was 16-years-old and a ninth-grader at Riviera Junior High, John Perry, a friend from Ms. Allen’s English class, sidled up to me one December day as we lined up to go to the cafeteria […]