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Minority Within a Minority

April 15, 2025 Tags: disability, memoir, well-being and medical

Back around 1971, the parents who ran the Guild for Fairfield County’s visually impaired students, in Connecticut, arranged for a group therapy session for six high school students, including me. Each of us was the only blind student in our

No Numbers, No Stories: Disability and the Harm of Secrecy

March 7, 2025 Tags: disability, morality and justice, politics, well-being and medical

1. Without Facts …? It is impossible to obtain objective information about the quality of a college’s services for disabled students. For other identifiable groups, we can get numbers, but not for disabled students. Members of those other groups are

Was Your Childhood Really So Boring?

February 18, 2025 Tags: memoir, well-being and medical

The other day, a friend told me her childhood was boring. I’ve been thinking up questions to lead her to discover her childhood wasn’t boring after all. First, when you say your childhood was boring, were you bored, or are you saying telling your

To Complain or Not to Complain: Ten Considerations

May 30, 2023 Tags: morality and justice, well-being and medical

When do we choose to let bygones be bygones? How do we decide when to let go and when to pursue? I’m unhappy with one of the lawyers who handled my father’s estate. In deciding how to proceed, I was aided by conversations with several friends and

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

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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