LeftyByDefault.com – Laura Overstreet

Lately, I have felt silenced and trapped.  Indeed, I realize now that these are feelings that I have long had but only in the past few years have I felt empowered and knowledgable enough to release them. However, I cannot – at this time anyway – write the words and expose my truth in its [...]

I love TV. I always have. Instead of taking naps with my mom and brother when I was little, I used that time for watching soap operas. That’s right. I started at 3 years old watching All My Children, One Life To Live, and Guiding Light on a little black and white TV with a [...]

Rachel Simon, bestselling author of Riding The Bus with My Sister, is releasing the paperback edition of her latest book, The House on Teacher’s Lane, on Tuesday, May 25th. I read Riding The Bus with My Sister, a memoir about Simon and her sister Beth who has developmental disabilities, when it came out in 2002 [...]

Alex at Many Worlds Network sent me the following Associated Press YouTube video about Billy McLaughlin, a virtuoso guitar player who, after a long career sustained an injury to his right (dominant) hand and then got focal dystonia, a neurological disorder, in his right hand, making it imppossible to use that hand to play.  For a few years after his [...]

During my Internet time this week, I found three awesome pieces that really exemplify thriving with disability.  The first is a kid who does what he calls “hardcore sitting.”  He has spina bifida and uses his manual chair to do adapted skateboarding tricks.  This dude rocks!  Check out the awesome video here! Next is an article about a [...]

A friend of mine tagged me in a Facebook note in December. The note read that the first five people to respond would receive something made by him and that each respondent in turn had to repost the note and pay it forward accordingly. My friend who wrote the note is quite an artist, and [...]

I took a short break from blogging to rest, recharge my internal batteries, and spend time with my family during the holidays, but I am back.  I got an email the other day from Goddess Guidebook about a workbook for the new year and it seemed to be just right for me.  I purchased it and, lo and behold, [...]