I contracted Polio at the age of thirteen months and grew up in a large family of eleven siblings. Life was never dull. My life was unique: full of grief, but also full of the wonderment of overcoming obstactles.

Henrietta Lacks is famous all over the world, but do you know who she is???

Another look into what has happened on this day in the past, historical events of note, famous birthdays or any other points of interest that have occurred on this day.

This poem is about my Aunt Virginia who suffered from untreated polio.

A Biography on the United State’s 32nd president.

This is a sad story of a young girl, lame due to polio and left alone in a room considered harbinger of ill omen…

An absurist poem about the Polio sugar cube, Puppy Mills, exotic pets, and dust mops.

Though a child is shaped by his parents, siblings, friends, school, religion, and other societal factors, no foundation laid by mankind in a child is immutable. Some are replaced or altered by society as a child grows. However, Almighty God remains the ultimate authority over the course of each individual as dictated by the course a person chooses to take. Though we all go astray due to our will, He lays His own foundations.

A poem by TJ Daniels.

The 1950s, Growing up In Spite of Polio.