Sara

There are those people online that you never get to meet but suspect could be your very best friend if they only lived closer. I tend to wor...

Swallowing the world

"I set out," [Terkel] said , "to swallow the world." Robin at Writhe Safely has a beautiful tribute to Studs Terkel . Go...

RIP Harriet McBryde Johnson, 1957-2008

Overwhelmingly sad news today: Harriet McBryde Johnson has died at age 50. Image description: The photo shows Johnson in a flowered-print na...

Girlcott of Seal Press

I've always intended to go back and review one of my favorite disability autobiographies, Connie Panzarino's The Me in The Mirror , ...

Friday Music: Chavela Vargas

April 17, last week, was the 89th birthday of Chavela Vargas, the legendary Mexican-Costa Rican singer. My friend Penny Richards of Disabili...

RIP BrainHell

BrainHell died yesterday. He was a husband and father of two on an inevitable journey with ALS. Image description: A color photo taken by th...

Marian Elaine Myers

I wish the internets had been big back in the '80s so there'd be an online record of Marian, my best friend in college. My first roo...

The wild life

It feels like winter coming here at the Gimp Compound. This past weekend, my father put up his little hand-turned wooden dish bird feeder an...

Nobel laureate James Watson and the big liberal tent

Last month, scientist James Watson , who won the Nobel back in 1962 for his work in understanding the Double Helix structure of DNA, was bus...

One more photo

These group action pics give me happy chills. Image description: From observer rachelleb , this color photo is taken from several stories ab...

I think it's safe to say. . .

that folks in wheelchairs have the edge in creating successful sit-in protests . Not that it's all about sitting around, but we do bring...

Updated: ADAPT action in Chicago

"Individually, no one's more invisible than a person in a wheelchair. Collectively they're pretty spectacular." Source How...

Another insult and apology

From the Washington Post . Jerry again, during yesterday's telethon : The 81-year-old showman -- prowling about the stage during the liv...

Back

So, it was actually a lousy vacation. I've spent the bulk of my time with ugly digestive complaints or working through the various manag...

Happy 17, ADA!

Today, July 26, is the 17th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Here's a photo of the historic event, sho...

Movie review: Living in Oblivion

Well, a mini-review. Because kactus is right , Peter Dinklage's rant toward the end of this film is both hilarious and great righteous a...

Frida Kahlo -- Celebrating the 100th anniversary of her birth

Artist Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, in Mexico City, Mexico, to a Mexican Indian and Spanish mother and Hungarian Jewish father. Sh...

Things that crack me up, #29

"This is a job for Blindness Girl!" And, her resume explained by Steve Kuusisto at (where else?) Planet of the Blind.

Because

Penny tells me it's Peter Dinklage's birthday today: Photo descriptions: There are five photos of Dinklage (My Imaginary Boyfriend)...

Movie review: Emmanuel's Gift

I didn't expect to like this 2005 documentary , the story of Ghanaian Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, born without a tibia in his right leg and o...