David Dame

This week was a pretty emotional draining week for me.  Tuesday was the anniversary of my dad’s passing, combined with our neighbor growing up, a close family friend passing away this week.  I could not attend her funeral but I wanted to write this blog about one of my most cherished memories of Anna.
In the [...]

It’s that time of the year again when we celebrate the holidays.  It’s funny how the holidays remind us of special memories from our childhood.  Playing, school pageants, and Santa.
Playing in the snow was not as exciting for me as it was other kids.  Snow and disabled people don’t make a great combination.  Still [...]

Everyone wants to love…and to be loved.  Everyone wants intimacy.  Everyone wants someone to grow old with.  Finding this person is the end game of many trials and errors.  This game is called dating.  It comes with optimism, discovery, anxiety, awkwardness, and self realization.  Dating is a challenge to everyone…especially for me.  This game  started for [...]

A friend at work today was telling me about his upcoming vasectomy, so I thought I would share my experience from a chair side perspective.
My wife and I decided to not have kids. I will share my thoughts and feeling about our decision in a future post as it is a deeper topic than [...]

To help provide insight to the dark side of disabled people I thought I would share a story of a practical joke that me and my disabled friend ‘pulled’ on a helper (PSW) that we both shared.
This helper had been working with my friend for a lot of years. This helper only had been [...]