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Just a Girl
It is odd how many subgroups I can place myself in if I stop and think about it. I am a person with a disability. I am a woman. I am a mother. I am a homemaker. I am a college graduate. I was a teen mom. I have been homeless. I am married. I…
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The Necessity of Planning
I am a planner, some might say control freak, but let’s just stick to a planner. I have been one my whole life. As a girl of 6 or 8 I remember loving lists: guest lists, shopping lists, packing lists. Also, I enjoyed mapping things out in both my head and on paper, ie. how…
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“The Sh***ing Stall”
A decade ago I secured my first handicapped-accessible apartment. It was, for transparency reasons, a one-bedroom in elderly and disabled public housing. My 6-year-old son, Winston (my black lab. service dog) and I lived in about 600 sq. ft, but it was our first apartment. In addition to being our first apartment of any kind,…
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