Note: If this looks familiar, this is a slight modification of a post I put out some time ago. Over the past month, many new readers have found our website. With the article in Oprah Magazine, my presentation at WVU, and the revitalization of the Anti-Parole petition the site has added thousands-upon-thousands viewers. I don’t […]
Vantrease Petition: 10K More Signatures
Within less than a twenty-four hour period since yesterday, another ten-thousand people signed the Austin Vantrease anti-parole petition. It is now over 42,000! For now, the signatures just keep on coming so who knows where it will wind-up after the push fades? I’d love it if it hit fifty-thousand by the end of the day, but […]
Blood and Urine Results Okay (Kinda)
Ryan is not able to verbalize if he is feeling poorly. He will show us, through body movement, when something is really bothering him. We’re thankful that he has a way of letting us know, even though it might, or might not, be involuntary. Still, when it gets to that point whatever is making him […]
WVU Guest Presentation a Huge Success
I had a wonderful weekend at West Virginia University. On Friday I was a guest speaker for a presentation I gave in the rather large auditorium in the Health Sciences Building. It was both encouraging and inspirational to look out at the crowd and it was near capacity. The crowd of students and others in […]
Tomorrow: WVU Guest Speaker
Tomorrow is a big day for me for two reasons. First, I am a guest speaker at WVU. I am addressing students, therapist, and brain injury survivors/caregivers. Second, I will see my daughter, Kari, while there. With the presentation wrapping up in the early afternoon, that means I will have the remainder of the day […]