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Tag Archives: Disability
My Favorite Christmas Ornaments
Inspired by Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. Prompt 1) Have you decorated your Christmas tree? Share a favorite Christmas ornament. I always feel a week behind during Christmastime! My mother is coming in next week and we plan to get our … Continue reading
Flannery O’Connor: A Woman With Lupus Who Accomplished Great Things
It is thanks to the comedian Norm MacDonald and his twitter bookclub @normsbookclub, that I for the past few months have been expanding my mind and reading things I would have never read before if it wasn’t for Norm and … Continue reading
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Tagged @normsbookclub, @NormsStories, A Good Man is Hard to Find, bookclub, Disability, Flannery O'Connor, Invisible Illness, Lupus, Mary Flannery O'Connor, Moby Dick, Norm MacDonald, Pearl S. Buck, Percy Walker, Roman Catholic, Southern Gothic writing style, steroids, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, The Good Earth, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, The Moviegoer, Twitter, Wise Blood
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Forgetting Everything I Knew
I read Expecting Adam as a member of the From Left to Write book club. I was given a free copy of this book. This post is inspired by the book. Welcome to all of my fellow book club members or anyone … Continue reading
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Tagged 401k, bankruptcy, blogger, blogging, Book clubs, Books, career, chronic illness, Chronically Ill, college fund, credit rating, Disability, disabled, Down Syndrome, Expecting Adam, Food Stamps, From Left to Write Book Club, Lupus, Lupus With RA Overlap, Martha Beck, Mental Illness, poverty, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Social Security Disability, special needs children, WIC, writer, writing
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Tuesdays With Tyler: Halloween!
For the first time ever, I’d be willing to bet, school was closed on Halloween. Due to the storm, some schools still didn’t have power and roads were still closed. I’d also bet that it was the first time the … Continue reading
Vacation Lost
Due to Grant getting his disability and us now having a small nest egg, we decided to do something with Tyler we had never done…take him on a vacation. It was going to be a mini-vacation to Hershey Park’s “Halloween … Continue reading
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Tagged Disability, disabled Mom guilt, Emily, Grant, Halloween, Hershey Park, joint pain, joint swelling, Mom guilt, Social Security Disability, Tyler, vacation
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Why I Stay
(I read Lost Edens as a member of the From Left to Write book club. I was given a free copy of this book. This post is inspired by the book. Welcome to all of my fellow book club members or … Continue reading
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Tagged accommodation, alcohol abuse, anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Book club, Consumer Advocate, Disability, disability accommodation, disabled, drug abuse, Emily, fatherhood, From Left to Write Book Club, Grant, Jamie Patterson, Lost Edens, marijuana, marriage, Mental Illness, Mental Illnesses, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, parenting, Prozac, psychiatric drugs, psychiatrist, Social Security Disability, therapist, therapy, Tourette's Syndrome, Tyler
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Tuesdays With Tyler: Spookley the Square Pumpkin!
When Tyler was a month old, five years ago, Grant eagerly bought our son a couple of Halloween books. The only problem was they were for toddlers, at least. “We can’t read these to him!” I said, laughing. “Oh, I … Continue reading
Tuesdays With Tyler: The Fall Festival!
One of the things I love about living where we do is that you can be in New York City one weekend and down on the farm the next. All of you people who make fun of New Jersey think about … Continue reading
The Day After the Day After
No, I did not survive a nuclear explosion, I just feel like I did. I’m talking about when a chronically ill parent decides they are going to give it their all, usually to do something stupid if not impossibly beyond … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadway, Chronically Ill, chronically ill parent, dinosaurs, Disability, disabled, Emily, Grant, Greenwich Village, housebound, iPhone, Jewish New Year, New York, New York City, nodules, rheumatoid nodules, SoHo, The Museum of Natural History, Tyler, wheelchair
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On Being Remembered
(I read Cleopatra A Life as a member of the From Left to Write book club. I was given a free copy of this book. This post is inspired by the book. Welcome to all of my fellow book club members … Continue reading
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Tagged 24 hour urine test, Adventure Time, blog, blogger, Book club, Cartoon Network, chronic illness, Chronically Ill, Cleopatra, Cleopatra A Life, Disability, Egyptian Queen, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra, Food Stamps, friend, From Life to Write book club, Gumball, illnesses, immunosuppressant, Julius Caesar, Lady GaGa, Liz Taylor, Mark Antony, Mother, parents with chronic illness, Shakespeare, special needs child, Stacy Schiff, The Regular Show, thyroid, Wife
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