The return to blogging!

So I've been waiting for quite awhile to return to blogging with a bang...so many "hot topics" in the world that I definitely have thoughts and opinions about-it was hard to decide which would be part of the grand re-opening.....Would it be outrage over that annoying show "Miracle Workers" with its incessant use of terms like "wheelchair bound" and "cure"? Maybe I'd start on a positive note-writing about my enjoyment of the show "Little People Big World"? But then again, I don't watch ALL that much T.V. so why focus on a television show? So I thought-direct action...I'll blog on the recent ADAPT protests and how they succeeded and where the fell short. But then that's a pretty narrow focus too--so I considered writing my first blog of the new year about other issues that I feel passionately about-maybe within my career of psychology and children's issues. Clearly, my lack of blogging hasn't been related to a lack of anything going on in my life (or my head!)......I did take a hiatus from updating my site as well but I finished a major overhaul of that last week....check it out because it's finished (for now!).....Instead, I think my lack of blogging has been more a result of my contributions in the form of writing through several other outlets. I've still been writing a monthly piece for Audacity magazine, keeping up with articles on Ragged Edge and commenting frequently, and beoming a more active member of several disability (and increasingly-psychology-related) list serves. Of course, there's no problem here, since writing for me is my main method of advocacy and expression at the time. But I do miss a compilation of my thoughts..right now they are scattered all over the place! Also, I received the last push of inspiration I needed from a recent article in Audacity about the sad finding of so many abandoned blogs-especially related to those focusing on disability topics, which mine does frequently:-) So with all that...I decided that I didn't really need ONE hot topic to return to blogging..but instead would combine that motivation and just start writing again, here in my own forum. I'm glad you've stopped by-whether you are new or a return visitor. Feel free to leave comments at any time...I like those!
Glad to be back and have a great day:-)
Love,
Kara

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From Poster Child to Protester

I'm in the process of getting an article of mine published about the recent Jerry Lewis protest so I'm backtrackign my research and thought this was an excellent article.

Jerry Lewis has meltdown

Yet another display of ignorance by Jerry Lewis...This time he resorted to calling one woman in a wheelchair a "human mattress" and accusing protesters at a recent book event of faking their disabilities saying he "bought their wheelchair and they would walk away and drive home"...obviously he sees no other way we might drive! Ughh..well-it was quite exciting to me that the protesters attended this event and gave some a chance to see his not very hidden dehumanizing views of people with disabilities...still all the journalists that I've read and seen (there's a news clip on this page) failed to do ANY background research of why in the world these crazy wheelers might be a little cranky....instead they are portrayed as random rabble rousers and poor Lewis (at least he's the one pitied now!) just couldn't talk over them. I wish this organization would have responded to the news channel with their views.
Hmm...I wonder if Miami is on his book tour---perchance my first protest is on the horizon! I am PUMPED! I must go now to practice my chants:-)

The Stanford Daily Online Edition

I interviewed Paul for last quarter's NYLN newsletter...and I'm reading his book right now to write some reviews for psychology journals hopefully to be published~so course, I had to share this!

Hurricane update

Well, I can't sleep due to good ole Wilma so I thought I'd give a little update.....I don't know what it is about hurricanes-seems like it's very motivating for me to update~I got my site updated too....guess the whole hunkering down in the house thing!
So anyways..I was so happy to get up on here and see tags on my tagboard....like I said over there (but ran out of characters!) I don't know who that Chinesomething...person is..I think it's a robot or spam or something..Sometimes I get that here on the comments section of my blog but I can delete those...Can't delete the tags..so please just ignore that weirdness!
Sooo here we are waiting out Wilma...It's not raining yet but it's really windy--already up to 40 mph which is quite windy here beings as they get all in a hizzy if it's 10mph...but nothing else is really happening HERE yet. In the Keys it looks pretty bad---however, it is fairly amusing to watch the weather people blow around..there's one crazy fellow in particular that apparently want so stand out in the crowd..He's down on the ground right now playing in the water to "show us how fast it's flowing!"......the other crew just asked if it was from the sewers!?!? Craziness..I think they are becoming a little loopy too!
So Wilma is supposed to be the worst here since Andrew...It's supposed to come through morning-2pm tomorrow...So just more time to wait....we are quite the prepared ones this time though! I got more groceries last night and Adam went for a lil water run today--oh yeah and Pepsi-the other essential. We moved the pots from the front porch-surprisingly my plants are still alive although they've kind of regressed into a wild/viny hibrid..but I still think they are pretty. Then Adam moved in everything from the back porch...we've been doing all the laundry and dishes too incase the electricity goes out....and there's TONS of ice in bags in the freezer with the coolers ready...Oh and I cleaned the house too-I have this obsession that if the lights go out I'm extremely irritated rolling over things or not being able to find things..SO I took care of that--such joys of having an extra weekend day-even if I do have to survive a minor natural disaster!
Well-the lights are a little jumpy and I must protect my dearly beloved computer so I'm off to watch my own Felicity marathon (season 1 on DVD!)....I'll update more tomorrow. Thanks for thinking of me and I'm sure we'll be fine:-)
Love,
Kara

Amazing Race-not so wheeler friendly

This just in....On the new family Amazing Race the dad on the Shroeder family just stated and I quote,"Too bad we don't have any handicapped children to push into the traffic and block the other cars. " Hmmm...obviously we will NOT be rooting for that family!