Living in Our Own Little Worlds
I enjoyed the words of another blogger on how little we really know about each other: We Are Lonely People. To a friend I said that there seem to be all kinds of barriers between people, not just...
View ArticleA Personality Puzzle
I’m still reading through the blogs on disablism – there have been some amazing posts and great blogs. I’m determined to read all of them, but that list expands by the minute! I have to get some sleep...
View ArticleThe Bears Want You to Know…
A few days ago I was listening to Hugga Wugga on my Muppet Show album. Then last night I had some peculiar dreams – they were verging on hallucinations! Just as I was dropping off to sleep, it seemed...
View ArticleBlessed Confidence
In this world, confidence is vital. Not just confidence in your own abilities, but also confidence in how you communicate and how you face the world. This reminds me of two songs from old musicals. The...
View ArticleCommunication Glitches
I reserved my Harry Potter book today. I hate it when people whip out a form and try to fill it in for you. “Name?” I always want to grab it from them and fill it in myself – and sometimes do. It stops...
View ArticleWordPress Emoticons
Apparently these smilies work in WordPress (ie become emoticons). In my current theme, though, they appear with a wee box around them. Blah.
View ArticleBloggers Under the Microscope
Found this on Blogs by Women: Are Bloggers Lacking Coping Skills? The article draws our attention to recently published research on why people blog. If blogging is considered a coping skill in itself,...
View ArticleAnxious in the Local Shoppie
My local Spar has a short stretch of Poland in the corner. None of the goods on that rack are labelled in English, though I was able to figure out from a Spar tab that one of the items was a bottle of...
View ArticleYam Artiklit
Years ago I figured one way to increase my confidence (and reduce panic) would be to improve my speech, so the doctor put me in for some speech and voice therapy. The speech therapist told me I spoke...
View ArticleYou Talking to Me?
I was reminded again yesterday how difficult I find it to speak to someone when there’s no eye contact. It’s partly that I seem to have a mental block against addressing someone till they stop and look...
View ArticleAnswering a Writing Challenge II
Part II of a writing challenge by Elizabeth at 1sojournal: I hear: nothing… just a vague rumble. I can feel the house buzzing under my feet; it feels as though a wind is hitting the side of the house...
View ArticleSympathy and Snoopery
I enjoyed Andrea’s blog post You just don’t get it. I seem to respond that way to people’s stories… recently a friend was talking about a parent who died, and so I talked about my parent who died. I...
View ArticleSimple Harmony
For Elizabeth’s writing challenge A Feeling of Harmony. This is what I think… harmony comes when things are simple. I had this thought lurking around yesterday when I was looking at the dA site for the...
View ArticleDeaf Anxieties
I unintentionally missed ‘Blogging Against Disablism’ Day (BADD) 2009 as well as BADD 2008 (May 1). Last year everyone said that BADD 2008 was the best yet, and I couldn’t help thinking, “I drop out,...
View ArticleKeeping Friends (and knowing when to let go)
After falling out (not for the first time) with a friend who lives far away in a place I’ve never seen, I was pondering the mysteries of friendship. Some people are easier to get along with than...
View ArticleClose to the Bone
Computer room is still gathering dust. But my personal journal is having a little bit of boom time to itself! Five days ago I noted a dream in which two little boys of 11 were hanging around in our...
View ArticleKeeping Perspective
I never posted my last blog post…. that’s two or three I wrote that never got online! Well, I hope this one is luckier. A day or two ago, this writing prompt from WordPress arrived in my inbox: I Can’t...
View ArticleProfound Deafness: Social Interlude
I was sitting downstairs with our visitors over coffee, thinking “this could be quite nice,” but got bored because I didn’t have the slightest idea what anyone was talking about. It’s not really...
View ArticleOn Communicating
Was wandering the internet and finding so many interesting things that I got confused. Which direction do I go in? This is the lesson I take from housework: don’t think about the fact that you’ve got...
View ArticleInstagram: Tiger by the Tail?
A few days ago I set up an Instagram account for the first time ever. Everybody else seemed to be using it, I thought, so why not me? I haven’t been happy so far. I’m so focused on settings and...
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