Some Awareness This Way Comes
I have developed some issues with my cervical spine so writing and posting are physically as well as cognitively difficult. Like all change, it will not stay but offer alternatives not imagined. Such...
View ArticleExpanding the Cone of Habit
This bright-eyed Westie is a member of my extended family. Formally, he is known as McDuff but to all he loves and to all who love him he is “Duff.” Recently, he had minor surgery on his ears and in...
View ArticleThe Expedition of No Return
“You are one injury away from becoming a quadriplegic.” “Now, you are not pregnant, right?” Both of these sentences are great openers for blog posts. Certainly, each could be its own blog post. Yet,...
View ArticleBits and Pieces: The Reality We Have
If we live in the moment, we work with the reality we have. Sounds good, if a bit obvious or perhaps platitudinous. Yet, it seems the way to experience the best of what is being offered. And if we are...
View ArticleMaking Lemonade, the Patient Pause
“What else might this mean?” Recently, I came across the question in this context: how different the world might be if we asked that question when facing a tense moment, when feeling anger or...
View ArticleWhen the Bottom Falls Through
Recently, I received some unexpected health news, which is why there has been a longer break than usual between posts. Just as I was getting ready to resume regular posting, everything changed....
View ArticleLooking Through the Lens of Limitation
For nearly four decades, I viewed disability through a lens of limitation. For me, that shutter had only two settings, open or closed, a.k.a. able or disabled. Some years, I fully embraced the label of...
View ArticleAiming for Even…With Wheels
Every post that appears on this blog bears little resemblance to its initial version. In life, there are best laid plans and then there is what happens. However, this post is different than any...
View ArticleSurvey Says…
Living on a fixed income can confine–no doubt about that–my budget is the same bottom-line every month but cost overflows require a constant balancing act. So, I have been looking for ways to...
View ArticleThe Flipside View of Life’s Turning Dime
I am in the throes of physical therapy for my lower back, specifically a right side L4-L5 disc herniation. This is not my first rodeo (but my fourth) that the disc between these two vertebrae has...
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