I recently received an email from a mother of a disabled child. And like almost anyone who experiences trauma, she continually asks: "Why me?" But somehow she knew this question only made her feel worse, she wanted to know when I stopped asking myself that question. She knew that I...

It's been seven months since I last wrote a column for The Huffington Post. I've got a good excuse.

As my readers know, I've been in a wheelchair for 30 years, paralyzed from the chest down. And although I don't have use of my hands, I've always...

As much as I hate to say it, the Beatles were wrong when they said, "Love is all you need." It's just not that simple.

Love nurtures life, but we need much more. I think Andrew Lloyd Webber got it right when he wrote the lyric, "Love changes everything,"...

The U.S. Declaration of Independence gives us the right to pursue happiness. That's all well and good, but are we finding that the pursuit of happiness can make us miserable?

In today's culture more people are pursuing happiness and not succeeding, leaving them frustrated and living with a sense of...

Thirty years ago I was driving alone down the Pennsylvania Turnpike on a brisk December morning when I looked into the sky and saw a massive black sphere barreling down on my car. Several days later I was told that black sphere was the tire of a large truck driving...

My 10-year-old grandson Sam is like most grandchildren -- the most beautiful, kind, intelligent and wonderful child in the world. In addition to all of those things, my Sam is on the high functioning end of the autism spectrum, so his view of the world is a bit different from...