January 20, 2026

Hi everybody. Welcome to my blog where I talk about my present.

I’m gonna dedicate this blog to my friend who is really sick, but he got some really good news this week. That’s cool.

Hey, guess what! As of tomorrow I’ll have made it to 65 times around the sun. In other words, tomorrow is my 65th birthday. Hip hip hooray. I’m officially a senior citizen. I can get discounts on the train, getting food, free transportation and 25 cent lunches. We can get 25 cent lunches at the senior center which is fine as long as you like steamed carrots and steamed asparagus.

I never really took stock of my life, momentous dates, you know, like when you turn 20, 30, 40, 50 or 60, but now I seem to think about it more. Maybe it’s because I’m in a wheelchair and I have a little time on my hands to think. I’m just gonna give you a quick run down on life so far:

Basically, I was born in Minnesota. Moved to Yale where Dad went to school, in Connecticut. Then we lived on Grand Street in Soho. Then in Brooklyn Heights, 68 Montague Street. and then in a big old run down house across the river from West Point Military Academy. Then I went to RIT where I got a diploma in bachelor of fine arts and an associates in science. Oh yeah and I ran across the country and got in the Guinness Book of World Records. Then, I moved to New York City and worked for a famous fashion photographer. Then I got married and moved to Australia where I lived for 12 years. Then I moved back to New York. My marriage was over so I moved to Paris. I lived in Paris for 3 years, then moved back to New York City where I worked a lot. I then got remarried, built a house on the shore of Montauk, had a great kid, then had this stupid brain bleed, then I got sued for divorce. Now I’m here with my smelly dog in a little stone house by the road. Anyway, that’s life so far. Now I’ve got to figure out how to live life with a traumatic brain injury.

Actually, I’ve learned a lot about how to live with my condition. I learned you should definitely not change the way you live. For example, I have a kid and I just worked at trying to get better and thought I could pick up where I left off. But I think you should stay with your kid, and that in itself would be therapy. But you should definitely keep working at having a normal life. Don’t use your brain injury as an excuse not to do things. It’s definitely tough doing things. You’ll definitely need help, but don’t not do things. In other words, to keep it simple, don’t sit on your ass and watch TV waiting for things to get better, because they won’t get any better unless you work at it. Anyway, that’s my philosophical thought for the day.

Love and miss you guys.

Oh yeah, check out the photo of the shoe I did when I was twelve. Pretty good huh? Anyway, love B. Nice

January 13, 2026

Hi everybody. Welcome to my blog where I talk about my present.

Hey, guess what! Next week it’s my birthday, and I’m officially gonna be a senior citizen. I’ll get discounts on the train and free lunches at the senior citizen center. A friend convinced me to go check out my Senior Center and the first thing I noticed when I walked in was that everyone was walking at a 45 degree angle. So, imagine a room full of Q-tips at a 45 degree angle. Then, the smell hit me. It was like a combination of steamed carrots, dead skin cells, vomit, bleach and fear. I thought I’d give it a pass. The only thing that looked good was the food truck. The food truck parks right out front of the Senior Center and serves lunch. I wonder now that I think of it, I wonder if I get a discount at the liquor store. Anyway, it’s strange being older and having a traumatic brain injury. Things ache and you wonder if it’s the brain injury or the age, cause I feel mentally like the young idiot above. That’s me last week…

As I said before, I’m working on this project for getting sidewalks for all of us in this community. I talked to the mayor this morning. and she agreed, more and more people are coming here. I mean, New York City is getting bigger and bigger. My family has been around here since 1968 and we’ve just seen it grow and grow.

You know, last week I said I wasn’t gonna take on any more projects after the sidewalk thing. But you know what? I really do think I’m gonna take on the idea of more money for home care aides. I have an idea, and tell me what you think, but I really believe any profits these home care industry makes should go back to the worker, not just someone’s pocket. I really don’t think any homecare or any healthcare should be a private, for-profit industry. I really believe it’s up to the state, or the country to look after its citizens. Why are people making money at our misfortune? I mean, I might be opening up a can of worms, but when you’re in a situation like I am (man, I’m hurting) it kind of gets you angry to know that someone’s making money off of your misfortune. OK, I’ll get off my soap box now. It just gets me angry that’s all.

Anyway, it’s something that should be addressed because there are no workers out there who want to do home healthcare. I run into it all the time. And like my friend here said, and we’re all just getting older. Oh, by the way, my friend here also just became a senior citizen. I think we should both get canes and point at things.

Anyway, that’s it for now. Love and miss you guys. Talk to you next week when I’m 65!

Love, B. Nice

January 6, 2026

Hi everybody. Welcome to my blog where I talk about my present.

I’ll tell ya, I don’t know how politicians do it. I mean, it’s tough, all this politics stuff. I’ve been trying to put in sidewalks for not only people like me, but for everyone. It’s tough. And I”m not exactly built for doing something like this. But, like I said before, nothing worthwhile is easy, right?

Just to give everyone a quick update: it looks like I’m gonna have to try and get the state more involved in putting in the sidewalk along a state road, to a state park. It seems simple, but man, it’s tough. It’s like walking through a minefield. But, I’ll tell you what, after this project, no more stuff like this for me. But, like I said before, it’s good that you have a project when you’re in the condition like I am.

I’ll just try to simplify things; After my meeting in Albany with some pretty important people, I established a good contact in the Department of Transportaion. They strongly suggested that we apply for something called a TAP Grant. Now the only problem about a Tap grant is that you have to front something like $3 million dollars and you get something like 80% back. Man, I tell you, that sounds like a shark loan. Anyway, that’s what the village and the town are doing. They’re going to apply for a TAP Grant to pay for the sidewalks. As far as the $3 million, I was told just to get the application in under the deadline and worry about the money later. Like I said, “Loan Shark.”

Hey, I’ll tell you, it’s good though, to do something like this to distract you from feeling the way I feel. It’s brutal feeling the way I feel. I still do therapy twice a week, but therapy seems to get more and more difficult. I always say to myself, “Oh man, I hope I haven’t plateau’d.” Being like I am can be emotionally brutal, so it’s good to have distractions like my project.

Well, that’s about it for now. I’m actually pretty tired. Like I said before, I’m definitely not built for something like this, but we are getting things done. After this, I think I’ll take a long vacation…

Love and miss you guys. Love, B. Nice

December 23, 2025

Hi everybody. Welcome to my blog where I talk about the present.

You know, when you’re like this, with a traumatic brain injury, it’s good to have a project to give yourself a feeling of self worth. My project right now is working on getting better sidewalks, you know, for people like me, for the elderly, for everyone. I’m trying to get better sidewalks in my community. It’s important. There’s a young kid helping me out. It kind of freaks me out. His father is the same age as me. Anyway, we went up to Albany to meet with the governor. The governor’s office put us in touch with the people that the governor would have recommended anyway. We basically saved a step in the process. I mean, it would have been cool to meet the governor, but I got to meet some pretty important people. It was a good meeting. I think this meeting will lead to getting better sidewalks in my community. It was cool They were particularly taken aback by Ronan’s age and his interest in this project. He did most of the talking. I said a few words in the beginning but he did most of the talking. I did say to them, “Watch out for this guy Ronan. He’s gonna be President one day.” Mind you we’ll all be in wheelchairs by then, although I am already in a wheelchair. Anyway, they were impressed by our work.

It is pretty cool that I’ve gotten this far and that I’m so messed up. I’ll tell you though, it was tough for me to go up there. I was exhausted when we came home. It was a long day.

I’m gonna keep it short. I also just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. On a personal note, I’d just like to say, I think Christmas has gotten too materialistic. It’s all about being together and sharing love. And if you can’t be together, just think about each other in a positive, loving way. Forget about the fact that I couldn’t go shopping anyway…

That’s it for now. And have a Merry Christmas. Love, B. Nice

December 16, 2025

Hi everybody. Welcome to my blog where I talk about my present.

I’d like to dedicate this blog to my daughter. It’s her birthday today! Can you believe it? She’ll be 19. 19 going on 40. You know, my friends all often say, you have no grey hair why? Well, my kid lives in Texas. (Just kidding Sam.)

So I’m getting ready to go up to Albany. I was going to meet with the Governor, but it was changed to meet up with the chief handicap commissioner. She reports directly to the governor. It’s actually good I’m meeting this person. I think I’ll get more done working with her. The governor seems to be busy. I’m bringing up a bunch of petitions, the ones with comments. The comments really show that a decent sidewalk is needed in our village. What we have now is called a sidewalk, but it’s really a blacktop footpath. We need a sidewalk that’s accessible to everybody. You know, not just handicapped people, but the elderly, moms with strollers, everyone.

It’s good I’m meeting with the chief handicap commissioner as I want to talk with her about several other things. There needs to be more people working as home health aides. We gotta figure out a way to get more people helping people like myself. When you’re like this, you really want to be at home more, you know, so you have your own bed, have your friends stop by. Be in your own home. I’ve been in the other option, and believe me, it sucks. Anyway, let’s all try to figure it out.

Above is a photo of my daughter and I. She was about one in this picture. I’ll never forget. I was so nervous I didn’t know how to take care of a one year old, nor did I know where to take her on her first birthday. So, of course, I took her to a really trendy restaurant. But she seemed to have a good time. I didn’t have any drinks that night. Can you believe it? Oh wait. Can you believe I drank a lot? Anyway it was a fun night. She seemed to have a good time. And that bottle on the table - that’s hers - not mine.

Love and miss you guys. Love, B. Nice