Author Archives: IngridRicks

About IngridRicks

Ingrid Ricks is the author of Hippie Boy: A Girl’s Story, a New York Times memoir bestseller that was recently acquired by Berkley, a division of Penguin Random House. The book is scheduled for nationwide paperback release January 2014. She is also the author of Focus, a memoir about her journey with the blinding eye disease Retinitis Pigmentosa. She is currently working on a memoir about her yearlong quest to heal her eyesight, and is blogging about her journey at www.determinedtosee.com

• How to Pull Yourself Up When Life Throws You Down

  Posted on December 13, 2019 by IngridRicks in Featured

  This vision loss thing has knocked me down hard plenty of times over the past year. And I know I’m not alone when it comes to the pain of this and other knock-out blows that life occasionally delivers. The only real question is how to get back on our feet once we regain consciousness and […]

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• How Do You Define Disability?

  Posted on December 6, 2019 by IngridRicks in Featured

  I never gave much thought to the word Disability until I was slapped with that label and told to expect widespread stigma and social isolation. That’s when I understood just how messed up these ingrained prejudices and assumptions are when it comes to people dealing with a challenge that has been shoved under the disabilities […]

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  What If Fear Didn’t Matter?

  Posted on October 8, 2019 by IngridRicks in Featured

  I’ve started thinking of fear as a malaria-carrying mosquito in Africa. They are tiny and lethal and impossible to escape. And as far as I can tell, there are only three real ways to deal with them. We  can freak out and launch a frantic attack on any mosquito we encounter — which is exhausting […]

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