Category: Features
Anyone who knows me knows I’m a huge fan of Nicholas Sparks. Whether it’d be his books or movies, his stories always seems to touch me in a way that no other author can. His books are so creatively written so that you are simply dragged in and can visualize and feel everything that you read from cover to cover. While I have read many of Sparks’ books, there are still a few that I have yet to acquire due to the busyness of life’s daily activities. Over the latest Christmas holiday I decided to sit down and read Sparks’ book, Dear John, because I knew that the movie was soon to be released on February 5th! Yes, it’s out already! Go see it!
It hardly seems possible that I have been writing for Audacity Magazine for well over a year, now.
Every article I have written has been a new challenge.
Every article, I have written, has been as different as the article before. And every article I write comes from a place of understanding, compassion, and a sincere honesty to enlighten the non disabled community and connect to the physically disabled public.
At the age of fifty after recovering from a spinal fusion, I was diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, a neuromuscular disease that affects the peripheral nerves.
Shortly after I was fitted for an ankle brace and later four constructive foot and ankle surgeries. As I coped with all the changes, I noticed people began to treat me differently.
By doing a few simple home up-grades on overlooked items it will lessen the burden later. To live safer and healthier use natural bio-based renewable materials to remodel your home. Plus, you will be saving energy while doing your part to leave a positive impact on the environment.
We are dismissed because our disability is thought to make us stupid. Do you think it is always us?
This area of dissection, which is readily unspoken about, is most difficult for the largest part to swallow. It is hard to believe, to the average person’s eye; that there indeed are some very capable people out there with disabilities such as myself.
