Another post today about living with disabilities reminded me of a question somebody asked me last night: What's it like to live with a blind husband and all these blind children? First off, the connection with the article: We see a lot of this attitude around our family's blindness. People think blindness has to be all-or-nothing, [...]
Transformation and Perspective
One day last week, while hiding in the coat closet, Kender discovered our old vacuum cleaner. It's been hiding there for many years, gathering coats instead of dust. He decided this was going to be his new toy, and he pulled it out, hauled it to the hallway, and plugged it in. Our first response [...]
Driving from the Back Seat
A recurring theme from last night's dreams really stuck with me after I woke this morning, all day long in fact. It's the image of driving a vehicle from the back seat. Driving by itself is a pretty common theme in my dreams, taking long trips down quiet back roads, driving across the open plains, [...]
I don’t want to go
This post is going to be full of whiny-ass TMI and cussing. So you don't have to read it. Not that I have a big following anyway. This is mostly a place for me to vent, for me to structure thoughts and arguments in a longer format than a facebook post, for me to store [...]
If Today Was Your Last Day
If I only had one day left to live, I would spend it relaxing with my family. I would spend some of my savings to buy a maid service to come in and clean my house so I would have a clean, dust- and mold-free place to spend my last day. I would do something [...]
Daily Affirmations
Positive affirmations and gratitudes seem to be everywhere these days. My Facebook feed fills up with daily thanksgiving posts in November. A very few of my friends do this on a regular basis throughout the year. A quick search on Google finds thousands of ready-made affirmations, gratitude bulletin boards, etc. As I have worked these [...]
An Abundance of Love
My facebook feed has been full of posts about Leelah Alcorn, a teenage transgirl who committed suicide by stepping out in front of a semi on the highway. I have a friend with a trans child who felt this story hit her like a physical blow in the chest. It shows that the alternative of a [...]
The Miracle of Birth
There was always that moment after having a new baby when I first took that baby out in public, a few days after birth or coming home. Whether it was one baby or three, whether it was the first or the sixth, those moments share some things. I was always a wreck. Trying to cope [...]
Catch-22
I am socially inept. There is a whole world out there of social rules, subtle distinctions in words and body language, that I have never naturally understood. It's not just a matter of body language, because even though the Internet has made it easier for me to communicate with others, I get into trouble here, [...]
How Can I Fight?
I've posted an article or a link here and there, where some other author has responded to recent events in Police State America. I haven't said much myself, partly because I don't feel like my white-assed, privileged words could possibly be worthwhile in a conversation about racism, partly because I really don't have anything to [...]