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In the spring of 1972, my mom Beatriz and I returned to Miami after deplaning a Colombian airliner, to begin a new life in the United States after living in Bogota for nearly five years. We’d left Miami in 1967, two years after my dad, Jeronimo, died in a plane crash near the Miami International Airport […]

Although the passage of time has put considerable distance between my childhood years and my middle aged present, I remember that the five or so years when Mom, my older sister, and I lived in Bogota, the capital of Colombia, were almost idyllic. We lived well in Colombia because my mother was from a wealthy […]

Peoria, Arizona high school student Caleb Norling didn’t let cerebral palsy get in his way when he scored a run for his school’s special-needs “challenge” baseball game this week. AZ Central reports that Norling, a senior at Peoria Centennial High School, lived out his lifelong dream on Monday, determined to help his team win. As he leaned on his […]

One of the questions that most people ask when they meet me is, “How does your disability affect your daily life, and did you have a tough childhood?” As someone who has been affected by cerebral palsy (CP) for over 50 years, sometimes it’s easy to forget that I even have it. To me, it’s […]

It’s a bit past 11:00 a.m. here on a cold February morning in South Florida. It’s also cold and flu season, and unfortunately I’m a bit under the weather with a bad cold. I don’t seem to have a fever and I still have a good appetite, but my nose is runny and every so […]

Last Friday, my girlfriend Laura and I went to Open Stage, a club in Coral Gables, Florida, to meet some of our high school classmates for a fun-filled evening of karaoke and drinks. Unlike our first karaoke night back in October, the turnout was small; when we got to the club, we found out that […]