Fandango’s Provocative Question #215 Before we get into this, let me start by saying that I think Elon Musk is a very wealthy moron. The two things, as we have seen with our former Prez #45, are not contradictory. You can… Read More ›
Disabilities
BACK IN THE SADDLE — BY GARRY ARMSTRONG
“The Saddle” was a TV studio, WCCA-TV. Worcester Community Cable Access television. It was nirvana for a retired TV news reporter. I was the guest. The hostess was Liz Myska, a lawyer who is also severely visually-impaired and an advocate… Read More ›
I AM THE APPLE – Marilyn Armstrong
It occurred to me I needed to see my spine specialist. When you deal with chronic pain, you learn to ignore it most of the time. Unless you want to wind up addicted to pain killers, it’s your only option…. Read More ›
AN ADHD SUCCESS STORY – A GUEST POST FROM DAVID KAISER
Hello everyone! I am the 35 year-old “success story,” David, that my mother Ellin wrote about in this blog entry. I put success story in quotes because, like all of us, I am still a work in progress. Frankly, have… Read More ›
LIVING WITH ADHD … BEFORE IT WAS FASHIONABLE – ELLIN CURLEY
My son had ADD and ADHD in the 80’s before the diagnosis came into fashion. He was going to an expensive private elementary school in New York City. He was bouncing off the walls and “disrupting” his class. He spent… Read More ›
ROCKS. BOULDERS. LIFE.
A rerun (with editing) from 2013. Shorter. Pithier. No less true. Asking for help is easy. Getting it may not be. I don’t mean getting someone to review your post or help you carry a heavy box up the stairs…. Read More ›
WHAT? – GARRY ARMSTRONG
This is a lengthy comment to a blog posted by the imminent eminent wordsmith known as Evil Squirrel. Squirrel’s blog “For whom the Beltones … “ was a humorous look at the history of aids for the hearing-impaired and the advertising… Read More ›
RETIREMENT IS SERIOUS BUSINESS
I stopped working more than five years ago. I was too sick to keep going and I was old enough so the market for my services was drying up. I started getting disability almost 2 years after I was physically unable… Read More ›
FIRMLY UNRESOLVED
To Be Resolved — We’re entering the final days of 2014 — how did you do on your New Year’s resolutions these past 11.75 months? Is there any leftover item to be carried over to 2015? I have stuck to the letter,… Read More ›
LIVING IN SILENCE
A while ago, I had the flu and my ears were blocked. One day, Garry removed his hearing aids and kept turning up the television until we could both hear it. “That,” he said, “Is my world. That’s how much I… Read More ›
WHY AREN’T YOU DEAD YET?
Why aren’t you dead yet? If you’re over 65 and/or on Medicare, or poor on Medicaid, that’s the message you’re getting. Out-of-pocket costs of Medicare have been going up annually, with ever-higher deductibles and premiums and a massive doughnut hole in prescription… Read More ›
IF YOU CAN’T FIX IT, COMFY FURNITURE HELPS
Ouch! That really hurts! My back’s been a mess since I was a kid. Fell off one horse too many. Rebuilt in 1967 — fusion and laminectomy using saws, drills and chisels — long before micro surgery and instrumentation. I’m… Read More ›
LIVING IN SILENCE
A while ago, I had the flu and my ears were blocked. One day, Garry took out his hearing aids and kept turning up the television until we could both hear it. “That,” he said, “Is my world. That’s how much… Read More ›
AN OVER-CROWDED LIFEBOAT
Ouch! That really hurts! My back’s been a mess since I was a kid. Fell off one horse too many. Rebuilt in 1967 — fusion and laminectomy using saws and chisels — long before micro surgery and instrumentation. I’m not… Read More ›
CLOSE TO THE TREE
It occurred to me one day I needed to see my spine specialist. When you deal with chronic pain, you learn to ignore it most of the time. Unless you want to wind up addicted to pain killers, it’s the… Read More ›
IT DOESN’T ADD UP …
I always say I’m the queen of typos, but lately, I’ve been noticing the problem isn’t typos. Entire words and pieces of words go missing while extraneous words and word fragments that should vanish hang around. Word bombs lurking in… Read More ›
For The Promptless – Qualia – Sounds of silence
Qualia (single form, quale) is a term that refers to the individual, conscious, subjective elements of experiences. Examples of qualia are the pain of a headache, the taste of wine, or the perceived redness of an evening sky. In other… Read More ›
Daily Prompt: Take Care – Doing the best we can with what we’ve got
I’ve been sick a lot during the last dozen years. I’ve been in and out of the hospital too many times to count, been nearly dead, then miraculously better. I’ve had major body parts redesigned, removed and reconstructed. I have… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 