PinnedThe Academy got one right during it’s 95thThe Academy got one right during it’s 95th It truly warms my heart that (in my humble opine) one wonderful man won an academy award and made a comeback that rivals Frank Sinatra’s back in 1954. He never stopped acting. Even when blacklisted, he kept doing what he always did…Film3 min readFilm3 min read
PinnedMy Life with LymphedemaMarch 6th is World Lymphedema Day. Many of the Three Million plus throughout the world do celebrate the day, grateful that they are alive and more grateful that they have compression that keeps the disease at bay. Many of us have what is hyped as “body dysmorphia”. I think that’s the term. This is when your legs are so full of water they are pockets and they bunch up to your torso on uneven section until they weigh roughly maybe 30 liters or more into themselves.Disability3 min readDisability3 min read
PinnedNumber 47Number 47 I would have been the 47th statistic in the Canterbury Rehabilitation Center and Nursing Facility in Henrico, Virginia if I became a resident as I had planned. COVID-19 and a severe lack of care for these patients killed them. There was one nurse/aide caring for forty people during…This Happened To Me3 min readThis Happened To Me3 min read
Jul 25Jason Aldean’s “Small Town”: I’m living in it.Country singer Jason Aldean released a song last May that was doing reasonably well — it was innocuous, actually, until he added a video. The video suddenly had a certain contingency in the USA in lockstep, complaining of racism, due to the singer’s marketing team’s choice of the building Aldean…Culture2 min readCulture2 min read
Jul 3A Cruel Spectacle? (No. It’s more like “The Addiction Hour”).After several months, watching a an Oscar campaign orchestrated well by a hot little studio A-24 and a smart management/PR team it has been a pleasure watching the major comeback of an actor who inhabited a character so deeply he turned The Method inside out. This Whale is not a…Disability7 min readDisability7 min read
Jan 1Santos, The Fabulist, and being a ‘fraud under the radar’.Today is New Year’s Day, 2023. Wow! I’m watching the morning news programs just like I do every Sunday, even though it is New Year’s. The talk is of Congressman-elect George Santos, of New York’s Third District in Queens. So many untruths! Where do I start? Why didn’t the media…True Crime3 min readTrue Crime3 min read
Jun 10, 2020An Update from the Bitchy CrippleAn Update from the Bitchy Cripple I’m Crippled and probably for the rest of my days and yeah, it will be one slow decline… going down. But I will enjoy myself. I have a sign in my house hanging in my kitchen, “Life is What Happens to you when you’re…Creativity2 min readCreativity2 min read
Feb 24, 2020National Caregivers Day, February. 21stNational Caregivers Day, February. 21st Today is National Caregivers Day. There is a report out that our caregivers often become sicker than we are because of the stress of taking care of a household, working at a job, taking care of us. It is so unfair to them! I need…Government2 min readGovernment2 min read
Nov 18, 2019I am a Bitchy Cripple and I intend to do something about it.I am a Bitchy Cripple and I intend to do something about it. First, I will share a Facebook post with my peep posse who followed the progress of my back surgery, which in all was a three year process: Facebook post, November 16, 2017 (six months and eight days…Medicine3 min readMedicine3 min read
Jun 24, 2019An EssayAn Essay “Music and my Father” If you asked me, "Abbe, what do you enjoy about your life?", of course, I would say my home life, my family, my spouse, my son, my dog, I can't complain. But, if you looked me right in the eye and asked me, what…6 min read6 min read