LeftyByDefault.com – Laura Overstreet

Last Wednesday evening I wasn’t feeling great, thought I was just tired from working hard for several days.  As I got ready to go to bed though, I noticed that the tiny aches I had all day were now accompanied by the feeling of a fever.  I checked, and sure enough, it was 99.7 degrees. [...]

Monday I put on my well-worn disability awareness speaker hat and spoke to a college class about ableism, able-bodied privilege. (Well, it’s not really a hat but more of a speaker voice I tune. It’s only slightly different than my usual voice. I can’t command it, it just happens.) It was a human services class [...]

Yesterday was a an absolutely gorgeous Georgia day. I believe the temperature got above 70 degrees, and I was dressed in my favorite spring attire: smooth, khaki colored dress pants, a pink and white striped Oxford shirt, and a white pullover cable-knit sweater. I was just a few colors short of an Easter egg. With [...]

Thanks to a comment from Trisha in my Welcome post, I have a fun topic to address today.  She asked why I use the term “gimp” to describe myself in the text to the left of the page when explaining the name of my website.  There are seemingly countless opinions and discussions on this topic, [...]