Every Community Has a Story, What's Yours?
What you can’t see in the photos of Jason and I walking through the woods just after our wedding ceremony, under a purple umbrella as it started to rain, is Jason’s injured finger. The injury from an accident the evening prior involved a staple gun, wedding decorations, and a trip to the emergency … [Read more...]
As told to Abby Walton by Lisa Combs. Lisa’s story. She is 48. I first heard the word autism in the early 1980's while sitting in a classroom at Ball State University. I went to Ball State to study marketing, but it wasn’t really me so I went through a series of majors including deaf … [Read more...]
This week’s Featured Story is, A Timeless Classic: Jeff Ross’s Story as told by his mother, Ann Marie Ross. Below is the author's account of capturing the story. /// As I drove up the drive that scaled a hill and leveled to an area filled with fountains and singing birds, my face was met with … [Read more...]
We're up to over 400 Facing Stories! So choosing a featured story is getting easier in that we have more to choose from, but more difficult in that we have more to choose from. Make sense or is my brain on Christmas break? Speaking of Christmas . . . it happens to be the favorite holiday of the … [Read more...]
Jerrold and I at the Facing Disabilities event. /// "You can call me sexy." That's how I started Jerrold's story. As soon as the Ball State Theatre education student read the sentence, the audience laughed. I heard the laughter and so did Jerrold. Jerrold was sitting behind me and to … [Read more...]
To hear more stories like Jerrold's, be sure to check out the Hillcroft's Facing Disabilities Project Event on October 4th at Civic Theatre. /// You can call me sexy. That’s what I told Miranda the first time she met me. Then she gave me water and asked if it was cold enough. I told her it … [Read more...]