Blog Articles by Month: August 2011

Energy and RA: Running Down & Making Choices

Running low on spoons is one thing. Running out is quite another. My new MyRACentral post looks more closely at where I’ve been in the past couple of weeks: “Someone yanked my power cord. It’s the only way to describe it. About two weeks ago, my store of energy extinguished. Suddenly, randomly – or so…

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Birthday Contest

Today is my birthday. And because it’s much more fun when you celebrate with the entire internet, there’ll be a birthday contest! One of my neighbours harvested her tomatoes today and had such a bounty that she shared:         Leave a comment with your guess of how many tomatoes are in the bowl…

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Water Curtain

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Remembering Jack Layton

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Far Away in Westeros

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Flatware Musings

You have to respect your limits.Keep track of your spoons so you don’t run out.Take care of yourself first, otherwise there won’t be any energy left over for other things. I tell other people do this all the time and I’m sure I sound very reasonable and at peace with the whole thing when I…

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Public Property: Curiosity, Privacy and RA

This week on myRACentral, I wonder about the questions people ask: “‘What happened to you?’ ‘Were you in an accident?’ ‘So, you can’t walk at all?’ I’ve been visibly disabled by RA – deformities, contractures, scars – for most of my life and have used a power wheelchair for over 30 years. This means I…

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Moonrise

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Apples and Oranges: A Rant About Literary Snobbishness

Updated September 27, 2020 Settle in, I’m about to go on a rant. A while back, I was poking through an old issues of Entertainment Weekly and came upon an article entitled “The Hottest Self Published Books” by Rob Brunner. This sounded interesting for a number of reasons, so I read it and that’s when…

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Duck at Dusk

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Where Am I and Why Am I in This Handbasket?

I blame the Oat Squares. If it wasn’t for them, the Cosmic Cat wouldn’t have noticed me. My life is been puttering along fairly quietly for a while, with only the standard irritants and minor catastrophes that happens in lives, but July didn’t feel that was good enough. July decided to set off enough calamities…

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As Helpful as a Scout

After the rain eased off on Sunday and the sun started peeping out from behind the clouds, I shut down my computer, grabbed my iPod and headed for the park. On my way home, I took the long way, wandering through the neighborhood and enjoying the day. I was headed towards an intersection behind a…

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