Recommended Writers
“I engineer families out of strangers”
I had the pleasure of writing a review of Jen Powley’s memoir, Just Jen, for this month’s Quill & Quire. Memoir lovers and disability activists will appreciate Powley’s politics and her direct and unflinching prose. Personally though, the element of her story I was most struck by was her resourcefulness in creating human networks that…
Read MoreLife is like a bowel obstruction
The dietician was the last person I spoke to when I was discharged from the hospital on Monday (yes, Monday, three days ago, Monday). He was being almost-too-respectful so I kind of felt like I had to shake him down for insight and advice. I wanted to know how I ended up in the emergency…
Read More“Save the ground for something that grows”
Jehangir Saleh wrote these words about his life with Cystic Fibrosis in 2005. I read them a few months ago but they still give me chills each time they drift back through my mind: “These lungs – which perhaps I should name as to properly address them as they seem to have a mind of…
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