LeftyByDefault.com – Laura Overstreet

My grandmother passed away very late at night on September 25, 2011. My grandma was an awesome woman who occasionally made me want to scream, and I was occasionally the heavy with her in the past few years. I came into my identity as a hard ass crip chick and she became more and more [...]

I have not posted in several months, but fear not, I am well and busy teaching.  I have at least one post I am itching to write, but it will have to wait a bit longer.  In the meantime, I encourage you to read two new posts from my dear friend, Alida Brill.  The first, [...]

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 [...]

I am honored to have my first guest post at FWD! Cross-posted at FWD/Forward: FWD (feminists with disabilities) for a way forward Book Review – Dancing at the River’s Edge: A Patient and her Doctor Negotiate Life with Chronic Illness by Alida Brill and Michael D. Lockshin, M.D. Alida Brill first landed on the “other [...]

I have spent the past couple of months working on a few retrospective writing projects. In doing so my senses have been in overdrive and my memories have seemed to rush through in new and invigorating ways. Yesterday was no exception. I made a trip to Shepherd Center and Piedmont Hospital for an appointment with [...]

The ABC medical drama Private Practice, a spin-off of the popular Grey’s Anatomy, has been a favorite of mine since it began in 2007. The show is about two private holistic medical practices in Los Angeles. They do a little bit of everything: psychotherapy, fertility, alternative medicine, pediatrics, sexology, general practice, genetics, and super duper [...]

(for Disability Blog Carnival 63) A few years ago I did an overhaul in caregivers/personal care attendants, whatever your preference in terminology is. I interviewed seemingly endless prospective employees and began to think I might never find a good match. Finally, after taking a short break and trying Craigslist instead of the local paper, I [...]