Divisions in the RA Community, Part II: Making Room for Us All
Also posted on CreakyJoints “People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along?” – Rodney King A few weeks ago, I took to email and social media to ask about a certain undercurrent in the RA online community where people felt there wasn’t room for them. The…
Division in the RA Community, Part I: Pressure to be Other
Also posted on CreakyJoints “I had to stop going online because there was no comfort for me there.” (Kim Bruno, @kaurorab) “I have been made to feel that you will only be accepted in these groups and listened to, if you only share your woes and not your victories.” (Brenda Kleinsasser, editor of CreakyJoints Poet’s…
The Consequence of Germs
Earlier this week, one of The Boy’s colleagues was diagnosed with strep throat. And then said colleague came to work the day after and the day after that, contagious throat infection and all. And that means my beloved and I will not see each other for the next week while we wait out the incubation…
Our Hands Can Picture Project – January 2015: NEW
The January winner of the Show Us Your Hands! Picture Project is announced: “2015 – A new year with new beginnings for Show Us Your Hands! We now have a brand new website that we hope will bring greater benefits to you. Also, we are now offering a second edition of our photo book “Our…
Weather Catastrophizing
Whoop-whoop-whoop!! Alarm bells are clanging, warnings proliferate, anxiety rises, and maybe I should call in sick? What’s all this about? The notification that we’d be getting “major snow” starting Sunday evening. If you take a closer look at the above screenshot from The Weather Network (click to enlarge), you’ll see that Toronto was looking at…