My Mother, My Daughter – The Rumpus.net. I am weeping for this woman, this magic and wonderful woman who tried so hard, who deserved so much better. I am weeping for the mother who tried so hard to bring what light into her daughter’s life she could, who also deserved better than the hand cruelly dealt. [...]
Go to post pageSue Austin: Deep sea diving … in a wheelchair | Video on TED.com. So, here is a positive rebuttal to my own post. Oddly enough, I saw this before buying my electric wheelchair, and it was a direct contributor to me stopping being reluctant to taking that step. It did not, as the post on the matter [...]
Go to post pageI don’t know if anyone reads this blog you know. I make such a halfhearted effort to post – yet I am prolific on Google Plus, which becomes prolific on Tumblr and Twitter by default, as one feed morphs into many. If Google releases an API that allowed me, as once I was able to [...]
Go to post pageThe 2013 Guidelines for Coming Out. So, Jodie Foster came out. Or didn’t. It seems there is some idea of what coming out should look like, some wording that is necessary to meet a standard. Odd, the notoriously private Ms Foster, who made a speech that included a yearning plea for privacy’s necessity, is chided [...]
Go to post pageToothache (medication plus ten pregnancies = tooth issues) meant an ‘emergency traumatic surgery’ last Friday. I am still healing, and almost on real people food, so that is good. Relieved what was a decidedly vile ordeal was resolved, but missed out on family trip away. Persuaded all to go, and they had a rousing good [...]
Go to post pageIt’s another year since your too early birth, already gone from me, already lost. Your younger sister and brother visited your grave recently. Your sister said “I stayed with my big sister for a whole”, and it took me a moment she didn’t mean hers – and yours, and yours – big sisters that are [...]
Go to post pageI read this story: “I don’t have the stomach for worrying about my body anymore” and it struck a nerve. I look in the mirror and I am nearly 46. I worry about the extra few kilos I have gained recently – weight maintenance is so much harder when one is disabled and have chronic [...]
Go to post page‘Tea Party’ to whip up a political storm | News.com.au. Australians should remember the initial burst of that similarly platformed One Nation (often called ‘One Notion’ by the sane among us), that drove the then conservative government of John Howard to start the trend of freaking out about ‘boat people’ (Tampa and children overboard and [...]
Go to post pageIt is that clear in my mind, how excited I was for a dose of Star Wars after the breathtaking first movie. Oh, I had such a crush on Harrison Ford. And confusingly, on Carrie Fisher. Life is complex, and I knew it already. I was a scifi nerdette, a proto geek girl, into Asimov [...]
Go to post pageA list of fixes for social networks made me start commenting with my own list, and it got longer than my one or two sentence post to a socnet alone rule. These become actual blog then socnet posts. And that is rule number 1. 2. I am not owned by my socnets. Sometimes I answer [...]
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