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Modern Love: Another Reaction by Gary Presley Posted in: Blog Posts in Physical & Mental Disabilities By Carol VanHook A teacher in our school has adopted “A Day in a Wheelchair” and is providing a couple of wheelchairs per day for staff and later, students, to “break from c ... Read on »

"We All Need a Sappy Story ... ?" by Gary Presley Posted in: Blog Posts in Physical & Mental Disabilities image from Wikipedia A comment on Modern Love from Voulez-vous and Tigger Too ... "I love this story, Reader's Digest-sappy though it may be." Read on »

"I'm Crippled, Not Disabled!" by Gary Presley Posted in: Blog Posts in Physical & Mental Disabilities Illustration of Quasimodo from Wikipedia I have been surprised by some of the reaction to an essay of mine that appeared in the Sunday, November 29, 2009, issue of The New Yor ... Read on »

Modern Love in the New York Times by Gary Presley Posted in: Blog Posts in Physical & Mental Disabilities An essay, which is an expansion of an anecdote in my memoir ( Seven Wheelchairs: A Life beyond Polio ) appeared in the Sunday, November 29, 2009, issue of The New York Times.Y ... Read on »

Guest Post: "Home Sweet Home" by Gary Presley Posted in: Blog Posts in Physical & Mental Disabilities ADAPT Supports the Community Choice Act!“Home Sweet Home”By Joy Caldwell “Home, sweet home.” What does this phrase mean to you? What kind of feelings does it stir inside? The ... Read on »

Just Food: A Book Review by Gary Presley Posted in: Blog Posts in Physical & Mental Disabilities I had the good luck to be assigned James McWilliams' Just Food for a review in this month's Internet Review of Books. It's a superbly argued thesis advocating a thorough rethi ... Read on »

An Interesting Contretemps ... by Gary Presley Posted in: Blog Posts in Physical & Mental Disabilities The story begins ... "Glee" wheelchair episode hits bump with disabled By LYNN ELBER (AP) LOS ANGELES — The glee club members twirl their wheelchairs to the tune of "Proud Mar ... Read on »

Congratulating Peter Singer by Gary Presley Posted in: Blog Posts in Physical & Mental Disabilities There is an article in The Daily Princetonian celebrating Peter Singer's ten year anniversary at that institution. Of no special import, this article, other than it accused o ... Read on »

One Small Step for the Wheelchair Bound by Gary Presley Posted in: Blog Posts in Physical & Mental Disabilities The issue of the so-called "Dignity Wheelchair" came up for discussion about people with disabilities who can sometimes influence the media. One person took action, Brewster T ... Read on »

An Undignified Observation by Gary Presley Posted in: Blog Posts in Physical & Mental Disabilities I keep a Google Alert running for "confined to a wheelchair" and "wheelchair bound" simply because [1] I don't like the terms and [2] I am curious about how they are still use ... Read on »

Richard the Monkey as a Service Animal, or Not by Gary Presley Posted in: Blog Posts in Physical & Mental Disabilities photograph linked to the story on the Springfield News-Leader website.The local "monkey as service animal" case made the radio talk show to which I listen today, and Richard t ... Read on »

A Bonnet Macaque Named Richard by Gary Presley Posted in: Blog Posts in Physical & Mental Disabilities The Bonnet Macaque from Wikipedia Here in southwest Missouri, mainly in the city of Springfield, there has been an ongoing dispute about the nature of a service animal. Today ... Read on »

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