2024-03-24 21:05
Back in 2014 i spent a lot of time in the hospital. I had GBS. Quick paralysis slow recovery. I suffered from quadrupedia, I wasn't completely paralyzed. I was able to move my head and shoul… Read More
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2024-02-01 19:31
i originally published this blog a little over 10 years ago. 10 years ago I had my first colonoscopy. This morning I had my second. A few things have changed in 10 years. First I learned fro… Read More
2024-01-31 18:13
I go to MTA board meetings and attend committee meetings and discuss accessibility in the New York City mass transit system. A lot of other things are discussed at these board meetings that… Read More
2024-01-26 08:48
Dick Traum died yesterday. He was the founder of Achilles International. Achilles is an organization that kind of has two functions. Their primary function is to help people with disabilitie… Read More
2024-01-18 14:11
Once every 6 weeks I have to do workshift at the Park Slope Food Co-op. (i actually work once every 3 weeks because you'll never see my wife in there. And to digress... when I went to o… Read More
2024-01-10 18:13
In the first week of this year I finished the dead fucking last in two races. The first one wasn't really a thing. My running club puts on a handicap race on New Year's Day. Everyone estimat… Read More
2023-12-22 15:30
Yesterday I left my house before the sun came up. If you've been paying attention to me that's not really unusual. In the summer I do that a lot to avoid running in the heat,or to get to a r… Read More
2023-11-24 22:04
I could post about food or just turkeys or about the 5-mile race I did yesterday. But I'm going to get a little sentimental...I take a lot of ride share, so I meet a lot of people when… Read More
2023-10-26 16:39
I was having a pretty good day yesterday. In the morning I did some advocacy work at the lower end of Broadway. Literally 2 Broadway. I used to say I was going to go yell at the governmentBu… Read More
2023-10-23 00:22
Last week I was quite literally honored to be asked to speak at a self-advocacy conference. It was out in the middle of Suffolk County and I was asked to speak about what it's like to travel… Read More
2023-10-20 22:45
A long times ago had a job in facilities management. My official title was evening coordinator of the student union building at the college I went to. The focus of my job was chaperoni… Read More
2023-10-10 18:34
Last week I did things. Well one big thing that had 4 different things in it.I got to spend a few hours playing tourist in Washington DC. I attended a conference in Arlington Virginia. Part… Read More
2023-09-27 10:45
DFL, Dead Fucking Last. Not DQ, Disqualified. Not DNF, Did Not Finish.Almost a year ago someone in my running club, the Peer Pressure Track Club, posted that it was just a few hour… Read More
2023-08-17 14:17
Two big things happened in the summer of 1976. The bicentennial and I told all my friends to go to hell. For me it was the summer between middle school and high school and I realized that al… Read More
2023-07-30 21:03
Sometimes I like to remind myself that for the most part everything I've ever seen is still there. Well, the big things. Last week I was reminded of that. Every Thursday night I meet s… Read More
2023-06-07 10:30
That's my great-grandfather. Charles Ring. He smiling and standing in front of his fruit stand in front of 136 Avenue C on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Now they call it Alphabet City.Th… Read More
2023-05-14 19:15
So last week I headed up to Montreal for the binual conference of the Canadian Guillain-Barre Syndrome foundation. In 2019 I went up to Toronto and wrote about it here. I honestly didn't thi… Read More
2023-04-28 11:13
That's one way to say it. But I really went to physical therapy and then left by going for a run. And I did that three times. I still go to physical therapy.I atend physical therapy at the s… Read More
2023-04-16 19:42
Many Sunday mornings I attend the New York Road Runners open run in Marine Park. I enjoy only open runs for many reasons. I enjoy the non-competitive atmosphere. I enjoy meeting up with new… Read More
2023-03-23 01:03
Sportsmen's RowA friend of mine recommended I read this book because it's basically about the street I live on 150 years ago. In a nutshell Brooklyn had 3 horse racing tracks in the late 180… Read More
2023-01-28 23:40
Yesterday I got a Facebook message from a bunch of friends I usually run with that they were going to The Met. So what the last minute I went to get some culture.We ran around looking for ce… Read More
2023-01-05 14:57
My phone buzzed on New Year's morning while running a race.It turned out that my Florida family was visiting.So I went home and changed my smell and met them in Central Park. Trying to find… Read More
2022-12-21 20:27
NO SMOKING1) Alarm Will Sound 2) Fire Dept. Will Respond 3) $500.00 Fine Will Be Issued 4) Hall Security Deposit Will Not Be ReturnedI left the capitalizations the way I found… Read More
2022-12-04 01:40
No, I did not trip again. But I was walking down the street and so are this very pretty autumn scene.BTW, diagonally across the street from my house there's guy who puts the biggest pumpkin… Read More
2022-11-24 23:12
No Entry to anyone smelling of Marijuana it a family place NY may be legal but This is private propety Thank you for respecting other people's spaceL… Read More
2022-10-17 18:41
I'm really not sure what more I can say that I didn't say in 2018 when I went to watch this race. You can read that blog post here. Today I went over to Edison High School and che… Read More
2022-10-10 19:25
So yesterday when I was running the Staten Island half a marathon my tow caught on a piece of asphalt, and I had a quick introduction with the ground. I scraped my knee my elbow and a little… Read More
2022-09-28 13:37
Whenever I can I go to the open run at Brooklyn Bridge Park on Tuesday evenings.It's a little bit of a reunion and it also has the greatest sunset on the east coast. Last night was one… Read More
2022-09-26 18:02
Thanks for capturing this picture SamThere Is a lot going on at the pictureA lot.First of all, it's about 1 mile into a 10 mile race.The Bronx 10 miler.The race was on September 18th, 2022.T… Read More
2022-09-06 00:42
I was walking home and came to a full stop the other day because I saw this flower. I was on 8th Avenue just a block from my house. I actually touched it to see if it was real.It was g… Read More
2022-09-02 20:46
There's two subway stations near my house.The 2/3 train is pretty close And the Q/B train is not that much further away. Sometimes, I walked down 7th Avenue to get to Flatbush Avenue to get… Read More
2022-07-26 14:09
More news from the summer of 2022It's been a long time since I updated this. But, I do have some significant updates.First, since covid, MetroCard finding has changed a lot. They stopped sel… Read More
2022-07-16 00:38
This week I managed to make it to two different videos. First, my friend Chris is making some short videos about people who are disability rights advocates. Here is that interview… Read More
2022-05-27 14:45
In 2016 I came back from being paralyzed 2 years earlier and finished the Brooklyn half marathon in 4 hours and 41 minutes.Earlier this week I finished that same race and 3 hours and 31 minu… Read More
2022-05-03 01:03
Recently, I was hanging out with a bunch of other grown-ups and we started talking about our kids.We started showing off pictures.What it was my turn, I opened my phone and showed a new pict… Read More
2022-04-21 19:09
This morning I spent about an hour hanging out on the steps of City Hall holding a sign while other people took a few minutes to yell at the government. (Actually most of the speakers were e… Read More
![Why Is The MTA Punishing People For Being Disabled? [Actually, You Can Fight City Hall, (I Mean The State House)]](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/1322/132230-2220640527.w320.jpg "Why Is The MTA Punishing People For Being Disabled? [Actually, You Can Fight City Hall, (I Mean The State House)]")
2022-04-08 23:04
So in September of 2018 I was going to publish this blog post. I left at hanging aroun, just waiting to see if I needed a little bit more leverage and getting things fixed. I did not.I went… Read More
2022-03-31 11:01
This morning I made a one-day trip up to Albany. As is my right I wanted to take some time and yell at my government.This morning's yelling was about trying to keep people out of nursing hom… Read More
2022-03-21 23:54
So I wrote the blog post below 14 years ago. I was a different person in many dimensions back then. But, yesterday for the first time in 16 years I paid for the New York City Half Marat… Read More
2022-03-12 21:58
Lately, I've been spending a lot of time in Downtown Brooklyn..... Fulton Street near Hoyt St. For a long time Brooklyn Heights Fulton Street would be thought of as a place that has always b… Read More
2022-02-14 00:10
It was kind of wet and snowy this morning and my plan was to take a car down to my gym and run 10 miles .Yeah, I'm lucky enough to be a member of the Park Slope Armory YMCA .(I am also lucky… Read More
2022-02-03 14:08
Every morning with my morning coffee I sit down and fill out surveys to make a couple of bucks. (I make at least $5 a day and sometimes over $100. If you want more information about how to d… Read More
2021-12-30 01:31
I've been a little recalcitrant in my blogging responsibilities lately, so I'll put a few pictures up here.Last week I went to my optometrist and his office is so crowded with art that… Read More
2021-11-03 12:53
I just finished my third round of early voting and elections a work . As I reported earlier it's a very rewarding job. In November of 2020 I worked at the Barclays Center. It was very busy a… Read More
2021-10-23 22:51
This was easy for me but Evan had to boil this down from like15 hours of video Read More
2021-10-16 00:22
I really had no intention of making this political, but I've been thinking of this expression a lot lately. and I just Googled it and I found out it's what Barack Obama said when Donald Trum… Read More
2021-10-01 21:10
The beginning of fall is a busy season for these missionaries. I avoid them during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur because for whatever reason they don't carry money on that holiday. They… Read More
2021-09-24 22:39
I didn't get to vote when I was a high school student. I turned 18 in June and then for two years I went to Hofstra where I would assume I came back home to vote because I voted as often as… Read More
2021-09-18 23:58
I probably use this as a title for one of my other blog posts . But this isn't about me. I didn't get to vote when I was a high school student. I turned 18 in June and then for two year… Read More
2021-09-18 20:36
I originally posted this in April of 2010 . I just happened to be back in that area and took a fresh photograph of that same Payphone. Just to remind my reading audience that 718 repla… Read More
2021-09-17 12:26
MTA ridership hits close to 3 million Tuesday, a day after setting pandemic recordTwo years ago I used to be the guy that would think twice about getting on a city bus at 3 p.m.. I tri… Read More
2021-08-18 15:49
It's no secret that I didn't lock myself in my house when the pandemic started. I took all the precautions and I went outside. I ran, I meant people, and lately I've been getting on the subw… Read More
2021-08-17 11:40
Sometimes you just have to pull off the bandage - Joe Biden Read More
2021-08-08 23:12
I'm updating us because last week I was asked to help out with some more ballot-counting watching. I don't know how helpful I actually was for the Brad Lander campaign but I did show u… Read More
2021-07-24 23:45
my Garmin says I did this I actually did thisIt looks like the Garmin decided to cut off my first five miles. Then it gave me about 5 more miles because of all the wiggling it thought I did… Read More
2021-07-21 16:48
I was featured in the blog of The Prospect Park Track Club ...... https://pptc.org/blog/2021/7/13/member-spotlight-michael-ringMEMBER SPOTLIGHT:MICHAEL RINGPhoto by Linda S. Chan (she/h… Read More
2021-07-05 00:32
Last week I work for the Board of Elections as a seasonal poll worker. I wrote about it in this blog. This past week I turned my hat back around and helped out my old friend Brad Lander… Read More
2021-04-27 13:41
I did not do this..I did thisI did thisI wanted to get into mileage. But I also had a somewhat busy weekend. I short race on Saturday and rain on Sunday so I figured I'd get in a Monday long… Read More
2021-04-10 21:06
A couple of careers ago I was a school administrator. I handled most issues regarding the students at a job training school. It was one of these After High School learn a skill get a j… Read More
2021-04-09 15:09
I've had five surgeries to restore some function to my hands. Here's the story.In 2014 I was diagnosed with acute motor axonal neuropathy, AMAN. That's the rare variant of the ra… Read More
2021-04-08 20:45
Sometimes I'd rather stumble upon some random public art without any warning then spend a day in a museum. Don't get me wrong art museums are great. But sometimes it's nice to be caught off… Read More
2021-03-27 21:21
I used to say that 25 years of training for marathons and ultra-marathons helped prepare me to recover from Guillain-Barre Syndrome. I was okay with the concept of having a goal… Read More
2021-03-26 10:16
YOU DON"T GIVE A FUCKBUT PLEASEDRIVE AS IF YOU DOThis photo was taken at about 8 in the morning in a Sunday. That's why there's no traffic. But on weekdays from 8 a.m. To 8 p.m. … Read More
![Lucky [White] Man](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/1322/132230-1642293584.w320.jpg "Lucky [White] Man")
2021-02-24 12:38
I used to run all over the place. Well I kind of still do, but I used to run a lot and everywhere. I never hesitated to go through neighborhoods that some people thought might ha… Read More
2021-02-22 11:30
Over 0.1% of the United States population died of Covid. I found this random picture of a crowded subway car taken in 2018. It's probably about a hundred people. There are 10 cars… Read More
2021-02-07 12:25
You can alway make a donationAs a chapter leader for the GBS Foundation I basically have a couple of responsibilities. Besides being a point of contact with people who register as patients o… Read More
2021-01-02 01:58
I don't race to beat other people. I race with other people. I enjoy the sport and I enjoy the community. Running keeps me fit and I keep fit that so I could run. Homo sapiens are animals th… Read More
2020-12-31 20:21
This year 1% of the United States population died of Covid. I found this random picture of a crowded subway car taken in 2018. It's probably about a hundred people. So, statistically on… Read More
2020-11-20 11:40
TELL IT TO THE RAINI don't know about this commercial. I guess the insurance company is trying to present the super cool guy who's half motorcycle and half man. But he's just a bully.T… Read More
2020-11-05 15:00
For 6 days before election day. I worked as a poll worker at the early voting site at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. (then I took a day off to run the New York City Marathon and… Read More
![Field Notes On Voting [early] With A Disability](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/1322/132230-301362378.w320.jpg "Field Notes On Voting [early] With A Disability")
2020-10-29 10:23
Signs on a fence including a sign with the universal disability symbol and the word voteI'm throwing together the following notes as advice and observations on voting in New York City with a… Read More
2020-10-20 15:03
I had Guillain-Barre syndrome. My immune system got confused and decided to attack my motor nerves. It usually happens after an event which gets your immune system going. Somethi… Read More
2020-10-14 23:07
There are many reasons is bad that Donald Trump retweeted this. Never mind that it's a photoshopped fake ad. Nevermind that is reproducing the hateful stereotype that Biden is frail. What… Read More
2020-09-28 00:00
Back in the late spring of 2014 I spent a significant amount of time in NYU Langone Hospital. When I was there I was suffering from Quadrophenia. I couldn't move my arms or… Read More
2020-09-04 16:58
I'll admit I was getting chunky before GPS but I gained a lot of weight being completely inactive and on steroids. In the past 9 months I went from 228 to 173 lbs. I don't need blood p… Read More
2020-09-02 22:12
This is what our eyes have gotten to expect Read More
2020-08-31 23:49
I ran super hard on Friday (a real race! I'll get back to that.) So I basically took the weekend off from working out, and my physical therapy was at 10:30 this morning at… Read More
2020-08-05 23:20
So lately my buddy Larry and I have been going to the locations of the open runs. The open runs are the community runs the roadrunners organization organizes but they're not organizing them… Read More
2020-07-24 16:34
Baseball started the other day.it's not that important to me. But it seems to make a lot of people happy. I think there's a lot of things we got to figure out that are more important like sc… Read More
2020-07-20 13:04
Actually been training for this for a while. Years a while. Wanted to see how far I could run, comfortably. And I was pretty happy that I found out I could run for 10 miles. It t… Read More
2020-06-28 23:28
I didn't take this photoGraffiti is back. Back in my day this was my tag $≠♡. I'm sure you never saw it. But you could have figured out what it meant. I was able to figur… Read More
2020-06-16 01:31
Last week I posted this as my Facebook status."To give my out-of-town friends a sense of scale Grand army plaza is up the block from my house. I can see it from my corner. I can hear t… Read More
2020-05-28 18:36
I have a lot of Google news alerts setup. The last one I set up is there any news article that pops up where covid-19 is mentioned in the same article as Guillain-Barre syndrome. It brings m… Read More
2020-05-21 17:52
I'm a really cynical person. That said, when someone tells me they're running a virtual race, in my mind they're just going to a trophy store. They're not for me. If you want a medal and a t… Read More
2020-05-08 02:21
“The New Normal” I really hate that term. Hate. almost as much as “agree to disagree’,, but that's another subject.6 years ago today I stumbled into my doctor's offi… Read More
2020-05-03 19:23
Yesterday I did my long run. I ran into Manhattan via the Manhattan Bridge, wiggle the way through Chinatown and the Civic Center and return home by the Brooklyn Bridge. my plan was to turn… Read More
2020-04-27 16:36
Dear Achilles Athletes and Guides,I am so excited to virtually run 26.2 miles with you all this weekend! Here’s how it works. There will be Four Team of Eight Runners (includ… Read More
2020-04-16 14:46
Back before covid-19 I used to get a little upset with the authorities when I saw a flag at half mast. I felt the deceased was done a disservice because didn't know why the flag was at half… Read More
2020-04-01 01:14
Not everyone is currently financially affected by the Coronavirus. You Know Who You Are Maybe you can reach out to the people that usually work for you part time. Your barber, your… Read More
2020-02-04 20:53
On the first Monday in every November my running club gets together and we mostly talked about the New York City Marathon. Being in that room it inspired me to spontaneously blurt out that I… Read More
2020-01-03 21:56
I was just on a city bus on the way to the gym and I saw this new sign and I got all excited. I thought maybe it would give a clue to some people that other people need those seats in the fr… Read More
2019-12-23 16:27
The past few weeks I have been the subject of some drama. It kind of a good way though. And it's been recorded.Above, I can be seen making a toast to my good friend Z. I met him through Ac… Read More
2019-11-02 23:03
Over the past couple of weeks I've done some traveling. First I went out to Southern California and a week later I went up to Toronto.I've been to the West Coast before but this time was dif… Read More
2019-09-26 16:45
The other afternoon I was walking up the stairs at the 7th Avenue subway station for the B & Q train in Park Slope. Ahead of me we're two young women struggling to heave a pair of Citibi… Read More
2019-09-19 12:46
Earlier this week I had one doctor's appointment near Borough Hall in Brooklyn at 8 a.m. and another up at NYU Langone up near the UN at 11 a.m. So I couldn't resist but to walk over… Read More
2019-09-13 22:39
A friend shared this photo with me. He wanted to point out the fact that the rail was not in raised text her so it was useless do the visually impaired.I immediately noticed something… Read More
2019-08-01 00:18
I decided to check out the Museum of Art and Design. Specifically because of their exhibit entitled Too fast to live, Too Young To Die; Punk Graphics 1976 - 1986. Hey, besides being an old… Read More
2019-04-29 19:16
I took this picture. If I were asked to describe the New York City Road. Runners Club Open Run program in one word it would be welcoming.Welcoming because at every park I went to I felt… Read More
2019-04-23 14:05
Full disclosure: On Sunday I participated in an indoor marathon relay. It was held on the Armory track in Washington Heights. As I understand the rules the marathon distance was 211 laps of… Read More
2019-04-14 02:00
In the course of 15 minutes three or four people stopped to take photos of the cherry blossom tree across street from my house. I decided to take pictures of the three trees that are on my s… Read More
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