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The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude by Howard Axelrod
epub |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Howard Axelrod [Axelrod, Howard]

The week after the party, I found myself taking more walks than usual, examining faces more closely beneath the porticoes on Via Irnerio. Wherever I went, Milena’s presence felt close ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 9,2020 )
The Ride Together by Judy Karasik & Paul Karasik
epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Judy Karasik & Paul Karasik

11 The Stooges 12 The Big Yellow Balloon The first time David was ever in my charge I was twenty-seven years old and he was thirty-two. One Friday in September ...
( Category: Siblings March 6,2020 )
A Whole New Life by Reynolds Price
epub |eng | 1994-03-04 | Author:Reynolds Price

5 BACK HOME I watched Jeff Anderson and his fellow builders construct a permanent wheelchair ramp from my back door to the driveway. L-shaped and built to ideal specifications, the ...
( Category: Authors March 5,2020 )
Spectrum Women by Barb Cook
epub |eng | 2018-07-28 | Author:Barb Cook

Talk like a man, look like a lady: Women and communication The added bonus of being a woman and a spectrumite usually makes communication even more difficult. In general, the ...
( Category: Autism & Asperger's Syndrome March 5,2020 )
What Patients Taught Me by Audrey Young
epub |eng | 2009-09-28 | Author:Audrey Young [Young, Audrey]

CHAPTER 5 Missoula Missoula existed as a kind of fable in my mind. I had known the place briefly, from stories told in bars between dart games and pitchers of ...
( Category: Doctor-Patient Relations February 29,2020 )
A Dog Named Beautiful by Rob Kugler
epub |eng | | Author:Rob Kugler

* * * As a reservist, I’d always had another job, except while being deployed. I had worked nearly every day since I was fourteen years old, but being medically ...
( Category: Iraq War February 28,2020 )
Listening Closely by Arlene Romoff
epub |eng | 2019-05-27 | Author:Arlene Romoff

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008 Bilaterally Enabled It’s been one week since my CI surgery, and I’m still a little sore, a little tired, and not quite myself. But the realization is ...
( Category: Medical February 28,2020 )
Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir by Terry Galloway
epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Terry Galloway [Galloway, Terry]

Shhhhhh! When Tenley and I were still little, after Gail had moved to New York and we were left alone with our parents, those two would sometimes disappear together. Tenley ...
( Category: Disabled February 28,2020 )
Shut Away by Catherine McKercher
epub |eng | 2019-08-05 | Author:Catherine McKercher

Anxiety disorders are teh most common mental health problem in North America, including among people with Down syndrome.7 OCD might explain a lot of things about Bill. But if he ...
( Category: Disabled February 27,2020 )
Being Heumann by Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner

NOT LONG AFTER, we found out that Denver and New York City had folded. They’d had no personal assistance or accessible bathrooms. Now Califano was going to be even more ...
( Category: Disabled February 26,2020 )
Get in the Game: Nothing Missing: You Have Everything Needed to Succeed by Kevin Atlas
epub |eng | 2020-02-24 | Author:Kevin Atlas

FOR FURTHER REFLECTION What’s your greatest excuse? How is it holding you back? How would it make a difference in your life if you stopped using it and worked through ...
( Category: Basketball February 26,2020 )
Looking Up by Michele Sullivan
epub |eng | 2019-12-27 | Author:Michele Sullivan

* * * The biggest life we can live is not an independent one—it’s an interdependent one. * * * He goes on to explain that the act of remaining ...
( Category: Disabled February 26,2020 )
Falling for Myself by Dorothy Ellen Palmer
epub |eng | 2019-10-02 | Author:Dorothy Ellen Palmer

No Place Like Home I didn’t meet another living soul related to me until I gave birth. Then, at fifty-five, I found my birth mother. I’d looked for her all ...
( Category: Special Needs February 24,2020 )
I'm Staying at Richard's by Bernadette Agius
epub |eng | | Author:Bernadette Agius

From the start, Richard was in the care of some excellent teachers. There was a lot more protocol than there had been at Mount Kuring-gai, our beloved mainstream primary school. ...
( Category: Special Needs February 18,2020 )
Nowhere Near Normal by Traci Foust
epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:Traci Foust

part two Everyone asked me, “How’re you doing?” And I said, “Well, I’m at the high end of low.” —MARILYN MANSON, INTERVIEW, SPIN 10 whore We never actually cleaned but ...
( Category: Compulsive Behavior February 18,2020 )

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