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Tim Gunn forgive me, for I have sinned
The other night I went with my daughter to hear Tim Gunn in conversation with Bud Mishkin. A convergence of menschen. Tim is delightful, but also intimidating. After carefully choosing an outfit to wear in the presence of the High Priest, I realized to my horror that...
Testy Teachers
Oh those, bad, bad American teachers. Everything’s their fault. What fools we were to trust them to instruct our parents, ourselves, our children. What a scam they’ve been running for decades! Thank goodness we have politicians wise enough to want to put an end to...
No One Is a Disability
Recently, I’ve seen several productions that deal with disability. Coincidentally, two of them—the TV show Switched at Birth and the play Tribes, center on deafness. A third, More of Our Parts, a series of short plays recently performed in NYC, included two about...
Striking Gold
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,...
Better Late Than Never
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...
In Memory of Joe Rosenbaum
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...
This is the first day of the rest of my blog
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...