In Girl Scouts we used to sing:"Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold." (Yes, I was a Girl Scout. I fondly remember my "Flying Up" ceremony in which we went from Brownies to Scouts. We performed a play: I was cast in the role of a lake,...
Happy to announce the passage of the H.Res. 683 by the United States House of Representatives. Introduced by Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-32), the resolution is an acknowledgement and regret for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Full coverage of the House proceedings...
Each week I lead a writing workshop under the aegis of the New York Writers Coalition www.nywriterscoalition.org/ at the Center for the Independence of the Disabled in New York www.cidny.org/. All of us in the group have either a mental or physical disability, but we...
Welcome to anyone who wanders in. I am a writer (novel, poetry, memoir, personal essay--oh yeah, blog) and teacher, a Boomer and citizen of the People's Republic of Brooklyn. I'm also someone with a disability and the mother of two biological and one adopted...