OK... one more nugget from Yaoundé... But it's a good one! fb.watch/rzdZNNmN2J/ via @FacebookWatch
+@ReggieMillerTNT I'm not contacting you as a basketball guy, but a cyclist. I too spent some time as a pro athlete, an international high diver. While you finished up at UCLA, I was traveling the world doing somersaults off 80 ft. towers - and training as a cyclist.
My brother, Andy was the director of the University of Michigan Spine Center at the same time I was in the crash. He was (and is) a global expert in spinal cord injury. Since then I've traveled all over the world documenting disability communities.
I just recently got my memoir published by WSU Press. Take a peek man, I think you'll get a kick out of it.wsupress.wsu.edu/product/glo…
@PhilLiggett Hey Phil - we swapped emails 25 years ago when I was trying to publish a book about a high diver who trained as a cyclist and became a paraplegic in a bike wreck. FF those 25 years with many passport stamps and revisions, and I'm now a published author.
@PhilLIggett My memoir, wsupress.wsu.edu/product/glo… was just released. My chapter about the LeMond-Fignon tour didn't make it because my publisher said it wasn't my story.I'm a cycling lifer and have won the Portland Marathon twice.
@PhilLIggett I've traveled the world as a journalist (got my broadcast journalism degree from Washington State U, my publisher, in 2009) covering disability in some of the poorest countries on Earth. Would love if you took a second look at the book.
@lancearmstrong Hey man, I remember you talking about cliff diving in your book. Well I'm an actual cliff diver who used cycling for training. I worked in France and saw you ride often. Now I'm a paraplegic (bike crash) and I've won the Portland Marathon hand cycle twice.
@lancearmstrong I'm a published author now. Would love to do a segment on The Move about living in Europe as a pro athlete and coming back in the hand cycle. I've since traveled all around the world filming disability Check out the book -> wsupress.wsu.edu/product/glo…
Global Nomad is on sale! Buy it here -> wsupress.wsu.edu/product/glo… Book readings: Jan 8 - 2 p.m. Northshore Library Milwaukee. Jan 12 - 7 p.m. Jack's West End. Downers Grove Illinois.
The book release will be delayed til December. I've been advised to actually write shit in the meantime. It's a 10-minute read on the Who show I saw on Thursday. It's a fun read. If you like this you'll dig the book - I really can't write any other way 🤣#GlobalNomad
Tom Haig retweeted
Order today! @RehabForum co-founder Tom Haig's amazing story about his journey from high diver to wheelchair traveler and disability advocate is being published in October by Washington State University Press wsupress.wsu.edu/product/glo… @WSU_Press @CaptainCrip
Hey everybody - I'm a published author! But you have to wait for the book to come out. Please go to wsupress.wsu.edu/product/glo… and sign up to get a copy when it's released in October. Can't believe this is real! #washintonstatepress #Illinois
@953TheScore Hey Steve -bear with me for a sec, I think it will be worthwhile. I'm Tom Haig and I have a book coming out on Wazzu Press about my life as a high diver turned paraplegic, turned international do-gooder. I met you about 3 years ago at a promo event at some bar
heading West towards the coast range. I told you I was an Acapulco Cliff Diver (true) and I had a book coming out (false). But WSU Press has picked it up and I'd like to do a segment late summer to promote. Oct 1 release. png me tomhaig.com
Tom Haig retweeted
PBOT and presenting sponsor Kaiser Permanente are pleased to announce the return of two in-person @SundayParkways events in Summer 2022 in celebration of the program’s 15th anniversary. @KPNorthwest @kpthrive
Details: portland.gov/transportation/…
So psyched to announce that Washington State University Press has agreed to publish my memoire. I've been hacking away at this beast for 20 years and now it's going to be published!
I just submitted "Cinema Dakar" to @WHO via FilmFreeway.com! - youtube.com/watch?v=tjU5gc6x… @RehabForum
Tom Haig retweeted
#Portland has teeny-tiny bike lane sweeper. We should use it a lot more
Just a smidge over 4-ft wide this little dynamo shd be running 24/7 (and/or we shd buy a few more of them)!
bikeportland.org/2021/12/14/…
