Here is the truth: we will be divided as a country not because people supported Trump while others sounded the alarm bells but because of what underlay those alarm bells. Trump’s candidacy and presidency show that at least 1/5th of our population isn’t against racism, bigotry, discrimination, hatred, religious intolerance, the abuse of the disabled,...

Current thoughts: In less than two weeks, the likelihood is that Republicans will vote Roy Moore into office despite being an alleged child molester. They didn’t care that the president was even more heinous, and the Republicans supporting Moore cite his Christian values and his stance against abortion. Me too still doesn’t matter if the person is running...

When voices go silent because hate and threats overwhelm those who dare to speak out, why should we be surprised to see the fall of civil discourse?

So I used to look like this:  Now I look like this.  Asleep, fat, and a ginger cat. Oh how eight years can change a person. Okay, so not a ginger cat. And asleep and fat is not the biggest change. I don't even want to focus on the ways this disease has fucked me over. It has and it will continue to do so. In the hours I'm awake and with...

More than 30 months ago, roughly 900 days give or take, my ability to keep pushing against the barriers my body was imposing on my will faltered, fell, shattered, and our lives have not been the same since. My mother's body had been giving her all sorts of grief for many years but had attacked with a ferocity none of us expected. Learning to live through...

 I would break out in a victory dance, but I'm still new to the wheelchair game. Haven't got all my moves worked out yet. It was our trial run, the girls and I, to the college to see how much energy it was going to take for them to lift the wheelchair out of the truck, set it up, and me get into it. And then into the college. We only covered the office...