My Life Among The Doozies

The following is excerpt from an essay that appears in the just-published anthology,  My Baby Rides the Short Bus. I chose to publish it anonymously so as not to name the organization I write about here. It’s a great organization that does good and important work, and I do not mean to imply otherwise, nor [...]

Anthology: My Baby Rides the Short Bus

The anthology My Baby Rides the Short Bus can be ordered now at Amazon. For more information, see my earlier post.

Sins Invalid

Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility
Nomy Lamm
“We are a new body of liberation,” proclaims Mistress of Ceremonies Cara Page, who opens Sins Invalid, a collection of skits by and about people with various disabilities. She introduces each performance and delivers poetic lines in between a parade of images and [...]

Amerika’s True Colors?

Well, well, well. So, here we are at last. All these years of politeness towards people with disabilities were, apparently, just PCBS*.
I refer, of course, to yesterday’s town hall meeting on health care reform in New Jersey, where a woman in a wheelchair was heckled while trying to tell her story and how reforming the [...]

A Haunted Baby Sister

I don’t know much more about Eunice Kennedy Shriver than what the general public knows, but the fact that she worked tirelessly on behalf of people with mental disabilities, and had a sister who was believed to be mentally challenged, tells me a great deal about her. In the book A Difference in the Family, [...]

My Baby Rides the Short Bus

Hot off the Press!
The anthology My Baby Rides the Short Bus is ready for pre-orders on Amazon.

This is something new in the world of disability writing–while I confess I haven’t seen it yet, their call for materials asked for stories from parents who feel like they don’t always fit in to disability organizations or support [...]

More From The Dark and Bitter Side

Saw Slumdog Millionaire yesterday, and my head is swimming with images not to be forgotten soon, if ever. I tend to read a fair number of novels about life in India, but while writers like Vikram Seth and Rohinton Mistry paint vivid pictures of human suffering, they’re far more disturbing on a movie screen, super-sized [...]

The Candidates on Disability

I just received this terrific information from my friend Stan Klein, who serves on the Disability Policy Committee of the Obama/Biden campaign. It’s a comparison of their positions versus those of McCain/Palin on issues affecting people with disabilities. With Sarah Palin running around claiming to be The First Advocate, it’s illuminating.

OBAMA ON SUPPORT FOR LIVING [...]

Some Special Needs Advocate!

Yo! Sarah Palin is going around assuring parents of children with special needs that if she’s elected, “you’ll have an advocate in the White House.” But as with so many lies that she and John McCain are telling, this doesn’t jibe with her record.
As governor of Alaska Palin slashed the Special Olympics budget in half. [...]

Tropic Thunder

Update added at end of post November 24th

Offensive? Absolutely.
Should it be boycotted or otherwise censored? Absolutely not.
The only things I read about Tropic Thunder before seeing it were a WordPress blog that called it hilarious and a San Francisco Chronicle review that multiplied the sentiment by ten. Both made me want to see the film [...]