Advocacy, Access, and Movement for the Silenced.
Several months ago, we were approved for a home aide, who helps with a lot of the light-duty tasks around the house. Lending us some much-appreciated help. Her name is Heaven, and she lives about a mile down the road, with her boyfriend Josh, a friend of mine. She is a very sweet young woman….
Today was the first day of fall. Coincidentally, the heat wave we’ve also been experiencing was ended last night, by some heavy thunderstorms. We ended up with temperature drops, from the ’90s, down 20 degrees or so, to around 70. I got up in my chair today. It is something that I have been able…
I guess I should have posted this a while ago. I’ve read all the comments to my BLOG posts, but I haven’t figured out yet, how to respond to them. I need to get Celia to show me how it’s done. Believe me, I love to get them. I’m like a kid on Christmas, checking…
That’s crazy! People are actually spending big money, to buy virtual real estate on the internet. They are also spending hours of their time, developing virtual lives, building houses, and accumulating virtual property, like cars and furniture, to what end? Like any video game, it will lose its appeal, when the next new, hot thing…
It’s 5: 21 in the morning. I’m awakened because my condom catheter has failed. Causing me essentially, to wet my bed. It’s not easy for a 61-year-old to admit to wetting the bed, but a lot of things have changed for me in the past 11 months. I have had to resolve myself to excepting…
Anniversary The one-year anniversary of my stroke is bittersweet. On September 22nd of last year, I began a journey, not by choice, that would become a struggle, which would easily become the most difficult of my life. Challenges, that would question, my very will to go on living. The pain and discomfort, I would eventually,…
I did it again. I exceeded my word count on the program I use to write my BLOG. As I said before, once I reach a certain word count, the program doesn’t just erase every word over the max amount allowed, it erases every document I have saved! I could understand if it were to…
Today was September 11, 21 years since the attack on the World Trade Center, which took 2753, of the 2977 people total, who died from the attacks on that day. That is a day, which shall forever be etched into our memories. A day, deserving of all the reverence it gets. The senseless taking of…
We all need to be accountable, for our actions. Telling an outright lie, especially when that lie will get another person in trouble, it is simply wrong on many levels. I say this, because recently a very good friend, relayed a story about how she had helped a man, only to have that man, completely…
I don’t know how the topic came up, but my Dad once told a story, while we sat around the table, at my grandparents, one Thanksgiving holiday, of the bathhouses he used to use as a young man. It wasn’t until high school that their home had the luxury of indoor plumbing! I was astonished,…