Mike Vargo: Is There a Real Me?
Believing in a real self would be easier if the self were not so inconsistent.
Nina Padolf: Labels Do Not Define You
For first grade, I had to take a bus to a school designed for children with disabilities. I no longer attended my neighborhood school, instead, I was placed in a room with all the boys.
Laure-Anne Bosselaar: Morning Praise
Praise not God
or fate, but the weeds & leaves that soften
the earth under my steps toward the widening
light
Arlene Weiner: Only One Dead
Our son
in Tucson warned us we’d read
about a professor killed in his office,
shot by a former student.
Sandy Solomon: After the Invasion
Cut salami on the counter,
greasy knife beside it,
wrapper lolling like
a tongue. We left it there
when the sirens screamed.
John Guzlowski: Four Poems
My mother never thought she’d survive
that first winter in the slave labor camps.
George Yancy: Deaf philosophy is opening up new worlds, challenging us all to see hearing disabilities not as a loss but as a gain.
There is a body of scholarship in Deaf studies about Deaf Gain, which flips the tables on the disability-as-loss narrative.
Jessica Bagwell: Study of an Olive Tree
Slick, ovalescent, stone
fruit, slung between leaves,
poised on the branch–waiting,
for warm hands
to pluck.
Sydney Lea: But-cept
From a half-century ago, I remember wishing my oldest son would continue saying ‘upslide down’ at least until first grade.
Bhikshuni Nanduttara: It’s Not Fair
I spent most of my teenage years running from one bed to another. Any sign of warmth would do.
Patricia A. Nugent: Healing Japan
I dreamed Peggy invited me to go to Japan with her. That’s all I remember, her asking me. I don’t know how I responded.
Joshua Michael Stewart: The Book of Love
The love my partner and I share is a book we’ve read many times.
Tony Gloeggler: Some of the Things
Bean once told me, he never
hit a woman, as if it was a big
accomplishment.
Video: A Walk Through the Stages of Sleep
Sleep is perhaps the single most effective thing that we can do each and every day to reset the health of our brain and our body.
