Since I can't tour widely, I wanted to share this story with you in a variety of forms…
My second summer as a storyteller, I had two important gigs: ReadBoston, which was Mayor Menino's literacy program, and Shake-A-Leg, now called Sail to Prevail, a summer camp in Newport that taught youngsters with disabilities how to sail boats.
At the time, I didn't have any stories that featured kids in wheelchairs…