Am I Disabled Enough to Get Special Treatment? Earlier this year, I wrote an article describing a personal challenge I faced when people illegally parked in handicap spots. The piece got picked up by Yahoo! and garnered over 600 comments. Many people expressed support of my plight, but a fair number of commenters were downright cruel. People said I wasn’t really handicapped, I was just lazy, fat, mean, and a whole host of other insults. They insinuated that I do not really need a placard and am abusing the system.… Read more Playing the Handicap Card →
How many times have you heard a person say, “I don’t care if someone is white, black, green, or polka-dotted, it’s who they are on the inside that counts.”… Read more Color Blind: Perspectives From a Polka-dotted White Lady and Her Black Friend →
Since 1921, the Miss America competition has ignited public debate. Typically though, the controversy doesn’t revolve around a contestant’s attempt to convey the positive influences nurses have on their patients.… Read more When Was the Last Time an Opera Singer Saved a Life? →
Click here to participate in “Face Off For Scleroderma.” If you haven’t noticed, there’s been a whole lot on my blog recently regarding that little incident that occurred between me… Read more How Did an 87 Pound Girl End Up in a Weight Loss Gym Class? →
Last week, I posted an article with a photo of my bare face (no makeup). To the left of me is a photograph of a beautiful woman named Chanel. At… Read more Facebook Doesn’t Like My Face: To the Facebook Ad Team that Told Me My Face Would Receive “High Negative Feedback” →
Why There’s More Than Meets the Eye When you look at these two pictures, what immediately runs through your mind? I’m guessing words like beautiful, young, healthy, and vibrant… Read more You Won’t Believe the Story Behind These Two Faces →
Allow me to paint a picture of what my life was like as an adolescent. I was weird-looking, awkward, and different from my peers in every way. Here’s proof: Exhibit… Read more To All the Adolescent Freaks, Geeks, and Losers, It Gets Better! →
How Scleroderma Strengthened My Will to Live “There, in that ICU bed, with a trach freshly punctured into my throat, I promised myself I would not live as if I… Read more Never Give Up! →
Comfortable In My Thick Skin 