For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in the U.S. a wheelchair stands out as an explicitly separate experience from the mainstream, in the Israel and Arab worlds it is just another thing that can go wrong in a place where things go wrong all the time.

Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.

The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.