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Sep.17.2010
I’ve always been very entrepreneurial. Even as a child, I loved to create little businesses. But there was a time when I moved from being an entrepreneur, to being a social entrepreneur. Peter Samuelson, film director and founder of Starlight Children’s Foundation, encapsulated that pivotal...
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Jul.27.2010
Seventeen years before the Americans with Disabilities Act was enacted, I heard the words "learning disabilities" for the first time.
My daughter Allegra was diagnosed with severe LD, which affected every aspect of learning and created enormous challenges with friendship and social...
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Jul.26.2010
When I was a kid, there was a public service announcement sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints which a boy accidentally breaks a window with a baseball. The old coot neighbor starts to complain, and then the boy admits he broke the window. The kid then sings “I told the...
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Jul.21.2010
I know this is late but I was at the Polaris SF con last weekend and didn’t have time to post about being different, being disabled.
Yes, disabled. Literally a lack of ability, it doesn’t mean that a person can’t excel. Stephen Hawking is one of the greatest minds...
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Jul.20.2010
"All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming." –Helen Keller
Overcoming her disabilities led Helen Keller to do great things with her life. Last week, in recognition of the 20th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, Red Room asked its members to blog...
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Jul.20.2010
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We come across people in our working place and other occassions telling us that they are different. They feel that they are not ordinary people but they are different in thier approach to solve a problem . They say that they...
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Jul.16.2010
I continued to follow the trail of my great-grandmother Josefa, who had emigrated from Slovenia in 1899.
She had at least one baby in Minnesota who did not survive, two years before she gave birth to my grandmother. From the Federal Census records, I knew the little family had left Minnesota...
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Jul.16.2010
What Normal Used To be
The mother who raised me was an active, vibrant woman. She didn't believe in taxis. During the 11-day NYC subway strike of 1980, she walked to work every day: from Park Slope, Brooklyn to Park Ave and 50th street...and back home every evening. She loved to dance. She was a...
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Jul.16.2010
From my earliet memories I knew I was different. AS a child I did not feel safe being different because nobody understood me. NO I wasn't retarded,blind or autistic,not deaf or schizophrenic,just born with an extremely sensitive temperment.
My childhood was frought with fighting parents,violence...
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Jul.16.2010
I now have a contract with Lucky Press, LLC to publish my memoir, Leaving the Hall Light On. Our plan is to have it on the shelves by Mother's Day 2011.
Before I get into all the details on how Lucky Press and I connected, I want to tell you a bit about my wonderful publisher, Janice Phelps...
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