Along with therapy and recreational activities, I also started getting back into the "Real World," too, in the Fall of '99. A variety of new tasks awaited me, from speaking engagement to prom to programming.

My parents and I presented a seminar at the Michigan Activity Therapy Conference in October 1999. The topic was on how the best success occurs when everybody works together. Organizers of the event were Bobbie Justice, my music therapist, and her husband Charlie Justice, my rec therapist.

Back when I was still using a wheelchair, my friend Josepha told me that she would take me dancing some day. Well, she did! Here we are on the way to her high-school prom. You can also get a glimpse of my fancy spring-loaded European hiking stick.

I graduated from high school in 1998, but we did not organize my "graduation pictures" until the next year. Here's my formal high-school graduation shot.

Other graduation photos were taken at U of M's beautiful Law Quad. Here's my favorite of the more informal ones that were taken that day.

Over the winter, I began studying more about HTML coding for the internet, so that I could investigate a professional career as a computer programmer.

I don't know whether the "official" start date should be 1/1/00 or 1/1/01, but please join me in the New Millenium as I "come of age" and add some more new skills.

Like TBI recovery, building this web site is also a long-term process. My parents and I started it, to help me remember what has happened. Perhaps others can learn from it, too. Primary pages on the site at this time are as follows: