Paralympian, artist, motivator
I remember starting to see all of the hipster tinged pictures showing up in my Twitter and Facebook feeds many months ago. It was likely around the time that Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 billion, that I realized what those sepia filtered photos were. Naturally, I decided to get an account and create my own. I made [...]
I had a great time last weekend, honoured as a Paralympic medalist at the Great Valentine Gala. Another highlight for me was riding in a truly innovative new accessible limo service. Love My Limo picked me up from the airport in an MV-1 and I wrote about the experience at allaccesspass.ca. Check it out here: [...]
It has been just over a month since I returned home from London. Since then, I have wanted to write a blog post summing everything up, but the words have not been flowing. Part of the reason is that, I often have to use my blog as a way to keep in touch with all [...]
Last summer, Karolis, Dalia and I spent a day with amazing Vancouver filmmaker Angelina Cantada. She filmed an ordinary day in my family’s life, and has put it together into a beautiful short documentary. Everywhere I go, people usually ask me: “How do you write without arms and legs?” “How do you get dressed without [...]
Movember came to a crashing close yesterday, and as a result, faces of men everywhere, including my own, are beginning to regain innocence so violently lost. During my morning commute I noticed several strangers on the bus, who seemed very familiar, yet unrecognizable. Shadows of their former selves, their bare upper lips were shining in [...]
SEATTLE – Dalia Mykolaitiene’s opponents knew she was a threat all weekend long, at the Leon Auriol Open held in Seattle October 2nd and 3rd, 2010. “You’re right up there [with the best fencers here]“, said one opponent. Her other foes felt the fast sting of her epee first-hand, in hard fought bouts. Unseeded, going [...]
My Lithuanian girlfriend Dalia showed me a great, fun and easy way to decorate eggs. Easter is a major event in Lithuania, and egg decorating is a big part of it. You can find a very interesting history of Lithuanian Easter traditions here. The eggs in the photo above were made by boiling onion in [...]
I drop Karolis off at school most days. At first I was awestruck by the view each morning. Then I started to take it for granted. Yesterday, we took some pictures of the skyscrapers, ocean and mountains we get to see. Karolis took these two photos – the first is our view as we walk [...]
We get new Facebook interfaces pretty regularly these days. When the new layout, feed and apps were unveiled, I saw that the site was making money. This post is not about profits or privacy; it is about how our grandparents felt when they could not set the time on a VCR. The key to our [...]
2009 was an exciting year for me; I completed my undergraduate degree in Political Science and French at the University of Western Ontario, at the beginning of the year. My girlfriend, Dalia, and I also decided to move in together and are renting an apartment near downtown Vancouver. We are settling in and building a [...]
