If you’re going to write a book about yourself, then the first question you must consider is where to begin? Right now many of you are saying to yourself “Just …
Unforgettable Decision: Giving Up My Child
It was 1978. I was 22 years old, had been married for 4 years, and recently widowed, four days before my son’s first birthday. The marriage was not a happy …
Talking to the Wall
When talking to inanimate objects Martha never lost her sense of humor. “Abracadabra!” Martha shouted into the wall, laughing, “Does anyone hear me? Can you open the door please?” Passing …
What Do They Know?
For years, my most unforgettable moments were ones where I made errors — blunders, screw-ups, super embarrassing moments. Actions that provoked major shame attacks, either then or later. Sort of …
Social Ladder of Little People, the Disabled and Puerto Ricans
What do Puerto Ricans, disabled people and dwarfs have in common? Give up? They are all at the bottom of the social ladder. According to Real Housewives of Orange County, …
Normal in Whose Eyes?
Mickey Rooney was the first famous person I almost met. I say almost met because I lay behind the glass window of a ward in the Arsenal Street Isolation Hospital …
The True Meaning of Legacy
I felt something else as well–a sense of loss. But not the kind of loss one feels when you lose a close family member, or anyone or anything that you …
Aha’s and Oh-oh’s
There are moments and there are Moments: someone called them “Aha Moments.” These, for me, are usually sudden and not necessarily rational. They happen like somebody—Somebody or Something—smacking me upside …
And How Was Your Morning?
Sometimes I feel like screaming “Shut Up!” at the world in my loudest, most annoying voice! My tolerance level for these whiners has reached its limits. Complaining about how tired …