Posts tagged with: disability

The Value of a Life Inside

I don’t think there is a MS-related concept that has troubled me more than the notion that since becoming a full-time wheelchair user I have become what some would consider... Read More

Taking the next step

Once again, I’m starting a new post by amusing myself with my own stock image choices. When you think about it, I guess it’s a good skill to have? That... Read More

Nighttime: An Ode

Nighttime is alive with sound here at the Hidden Falls Home for Wayward Women. Nighttime is the sound of a million unseen creatures coming in through my open windows. I... Read More

A cure for pain

I don’t remember when I started listening to the band Morphine. I know it was sometime in the late 90’s when I was working at Ketchum Advertising. The creative people... Read More

What are you doing today?

Holidays are the best. For this Fourth of July, I was fortunate enough to have not just the usual three-day weekend, but my French-company gives us a five-day weekend for... Read More

Irony is my jam

I stumbled across an article from The New Yorker yesterday that got me kind of excited. It was written in 2013 by Meghan O’Rourke about her experience with autoimmune disease... Read More

Fam. We Need To Talk About Compression Socks.

I first learned about compression socks during my first tour of duty at IPR (or InPatient Rehab for the luckily uninitiated) where I used my first wheelchair because they were... Read More

The stories we were told

Our lives are built from the stories we were told from the time we were old enough to have the ability to remember – and if you ask me, maybe... Read More

Be like the water, Bethy

In my mind, it was the Buddha or some entity much more spiritual and lofty who told me, and you and everyone else, to be like the water. But it... Read More

Time for something a little different

How about a post that’s not about the disastrous state of my mental health? Maybe just a good old list of random topics about which I feel the need to... Read More