Posts under ‘Kernels of ideas’

I googled “false praise” for a topic that I have been chewing on for a while, and I stumbled on a great article on heroes.

If you have not noticed, there are two disparate themes running throughout this blog. When I started, I had every intention to keep this “professional” and only provide resources, ideas, and information that was fully “fleshed out”. I was operating under the assumption that if I did not do that, I would not [...]

It is so hard being between worlds. On the one hand, I am highly intelligent n have accomplished amazing things for someone who was born with a severe disability. My successes make grappling with my flaws — interpersonal skills — all the more unexpected to those I interact and daunting for me to get [...]

My friend Richard Wanderman wrote a while age about two different ways of building on-line communities — blogs and message boards. Both have their advantages and serve different needs of both the owner and the audience.
I stumbled on an article yesterday that focuses on the blog format and how to make it active and engaging.

This may be a sign of my laziness, but I have always felt that one of the primary things one learns in college is the art of skimming, and being able to determine what 20-25% of the assigned reading is the most important to really read. Professors do not expect you to be able [...]

Thank God. Labor Day weekend is over.
I don’t like to see Labor Day arrive, and not just because it marks the end of summer. It also marks an annual event that is so destructive for disability inclusion: the MDA telethon.
No matter how much money the telethon raises, and whether that money goes for research [...]

It is with great reticence that I post this link, but as the old defense goes: “I read it just for the articles, really!” Ok, I’m exposing one of my true interests in life — deal with it.
This week’s Domai Newsletter is a magnificent vignette on disability, beauty, and sexuality.(yes, you have been [...]