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An Anthology That Leaves the Best for Last

July 5, 2023 Tags: disability, empathy, literature, morality and justice

For Artificial Divide, (2021) Robert Kingett and Randy Lacey collected sixteen stories by visually impaired and blind authors. As I lament in my essay “Twilight of a Stockbroker” (2017), there is almost no fiction created by blind authors in which

Fairness in Love

April 21, 2023 Tags: disability, empathy, morality and justice

On April 12, the Washington Post published a questionnaire designed to show readers if they hold ableist assumptions. However, the questions reveal their authors’ own prejudices about matters of love and death. Throughout, for reasons explained in

Sunlight at Amherst?

April 12, 2023 Tags: censorship, disability, empathy, morality and justice, politics, well-being and medical

I finally have the basic answer to the question I posed to my alma mater, Amherst College, nearly two years ago. Subscribers to this website may recall that, after being excluded from a Zoom presentation in 2021 due to the College’s reliance on an

Big Eyes

March 20, 2023 Tags: disability, empathy

I resist the notion of “ableism” because it suggests that all nondisabled people (whoever they may be) discriminate against disabled people, which isn’t true. However, a visually impaired friend of mine, his sighted wife and sighted six-year-old

Disability Discomfiture

January 13, 2023 Tags: censorship, disability, morality and justice, politics

I remain deadlocked with my beloved alma mater, Amherst College, over its refusal to answer my question about how many blind and otherwise physically disabled students it has admitted in the past ten years. As I wrote in my July 5, 2021 essay

What I Learned from a Book Club About My Own Novel

October 24, 2022 Tags: charity, disability, empathy, morality and justice, well-being and medical

When speaking to groups about Caroline, my novel that I promote elsewhere on this website, I acknowledge that once a book is out, it’s no longer the exclusive province of the author. As I found during a recent Zoom meeting with a Florida book club,

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