The maiden voyage with The Bobbseys begins. Originally Facebook updates of a three week tour down to Southern California and back, Week 1 covers the trip down to San Diego to visit old friends before an impromptu rendezvous with some teammates in the City of Sin led to my brief appearance on The Ultimate Fighter….
Author: Kenny Salvini
A quadriplegic since 2004 after a snow skiing accident left me paralyzed from the neck down, I have spent the majority of the last decade searching for a sense of purpose. In the summer of 2005, my blog, titled "Typical Guy, Atypical Situation", was featured on the MSN homepage and became somewhat of a viral hit, which led to a few small collaborations with Microsoft. After taking a five-year sabbatical from the website in 2007, life's trajectory seems to be leading me back in that general direction as I look to create opportunities for people in situations similar to mine to share their stories. My hope is to build a community where a group of people in seemingly dire circumstances are able to pool their collective experience, strength and hope in order to successfully achieve an enhanced, more accessible life.
Another 15 minutes.
Over the last few months, life’s trajectory seems to be pushing me in a direction that, while not all that unfamiliar, has still been absolutely surreal. It started right around September when a friend of mine was injured in a motorcycle accident leaving him partially paralyzed with a long, uphill battle for recovery. In the…
… And eating it, too.
I spent the last couple of days trying to come up with something earth shattering to commemorate the ninth anniversary of my accident. Hours were spent agonizing over mixed metaphors, word choice and tone. Then my night caregiver showed up for her shift with this: Yep, that’s a cake reenactment of the 40 foot fall…
Smalls Unplugged: A long-overdue update
There is always a strange mix of emotions whenever I happen to make my way back here. Like walking the digital side streets in a virtual ghost town of what was once my very own relatively bustling corner of cyberspace, there is a nostalgic familiarity that comes with any trip down memory lane, but so…
Stealing someone else’s words
Hey, I’ve said before that I’m not above it. I have spent the last couple days (without sleep) trying to find the right words to commemorate today. I never would have thought they would show up secondhand in an e-mail my mom sent out to friends and loved ones this evening. Enjoy… Hi There, I…
Reason to Believe
George Carlin once said that, “inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist.” Well, after spending the near entirety of my adult life in The Bush Era, governed by the politics of Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, it should come as no surprise that I have viewed government, and our system as a whole, with…
Smalls attempts to talk politics…
I don’t know how long I’ve been trying to put together my thoughts regarding the upcoming presidential election, but each time I’ve tried has just left me all fired up with nothing to show for it. Nearing my breaking point, I remembered a technique that got me through many an English class back in the…
Hey… where’d everyone go?
Ohhhhhhyeeeeaaaahhh… it was ME that disappeared, huh? Well, I suppose I’m a smidge overdue in the update department, so here goes… Yes, I am in fact still alive. Still paraly… wait, quick check – yup, still paralyzed. I’ve been staying pretty healthy, thanks for all the e-mails. Those main questions having been answered naturally beg…
Not just another day
So this is how it’s going to end?… I thought to myself, the helicopter blades beating their rhythmic cadence all around my lifeless body as the medevac carved its way through the night sky on its way to Harborview Medical Center. Barely able to breathe and slipping in and out of consciousness, I was sure…
Because everyone else has one… and I want to be COOL!
1. I had a brown guinea pig named Turd Ferguson in college named after my favorite SNL Celebrity Jeopardy skit of all time. 2. When I was in eighth grade, I landed TWO supporting roles in the final play of the year for my drama class: a belligerent cowboy in the hospital, and a senile…
Kenny Salvini 