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Let them Eat… Well… Cake

by Lane - 21 September 2009

I knew that the most enjoyable part of this post was going to be coming up with an appropriate title. There were so many options. After that, the rest would filled with a series of sad and unfortunate events. Read on to see why.

How It Worked At Work

by Lane - 18 July 2009

Earlier in the day, I had taken delivery of my brand new wheelchair. A proper, respectable chair that was appropriate for most environments and one that I could be proud of. For most of the drive from my DME vendor, I had a stupid grin on, and other drivers surely must have thought I was either on drugs or had just become engaged. Maybe I had in a way.

Happiness and fear

by Gordo - 3 July 2008

Today, a contact on my MSN list attached the following comment to her username: “Be right or be happy?”

Whenever a question like this is phrased as such, it seems so obvious — be happy. However, as we’ve seen in the BIID circles, it doesn’t always work like that. Society has an obsession with being “right” at the cost of happiness; in other words, being both “normal” AND happy is at a premium.