Today’s post is a little different. I hope it proves usual, however. Learning how to blog well and post on multiple social media platforms can be difficult, tiring, and time consuming. Up until May of this year I felt like I was the proverbial on the wheel most days. I knew I didn’t want to
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One morning as a senior in high school, one of the special education teachers asked to see me. This wasn’t unusual. First period for me was being a senior peer helper in the special education department. What she had to tell me before first period was unexpected, however. She had arranged for a person from
I’m still putting together a list of books I love, but I promised a list of TV shows I love at some point last year, so this post is me making good on that promise. In full disclosure as the blog grows and I have much more work to do: I find myself watching less
I’ve gotten a lot of questions about my blog and my condition recently. I’m going to take them each one by one. Who writes your blog posts? I do. I would NEVER trust anyone else to tell my story. Do you have a company that does your social media posts for you? No, I post
If you follow this blog on Twitter or Instagram, you know I am committed and passionate about doing all I can to help end ALS. I thought I would share why. I have a different definition of family than most. If you follow this blog, you know I call the people who know me best,
With the Summer Olympics just finished and the Paralympics going on now. It is a good time to chronicle witnessing Olympic and Paralympic history firsthand. I was very young when the Summer Olympic Games were hosted in Atlanta. I would be old enough to remember, however. Mama wanted to make sure I had memories. We
I hooked several more older blog posts into SEO today. One was my perspective on aging. You can read that post here: https://thrivingwithcerebralpalsy.com/2021/02/27/my-perspective-on-aging/. This is a companion post to that one. This blog post is a list of the skincare/makeup/tools I love. I am going to list my favorite products by category and the brands/colors
A lot of stressful stuff is happening in my life away from blogging. All of it is stressful, heavy, and hard. Circumstances are forcing me to change the way I do stuff. Stress management is incredibly important for thriving with my condition, so I am trying new ways to manage stress (in addition to the
If you read this blog regularly, you know my chosen brother/journey partner calls me polar bear. I wrote about the nickname in an earlier blog post you can read by clicking on the link: https://thrivingwithcerebralpalsy.com/2019/10/29/how-my-polar-bear-nickname-helps-me-thrive/. The polar bear part of my personality is my other gear. It is where my determination kicks in usually due
This is a post dedicated to my clothing, hair, and purse choices. All of these choices are made with my condition in mind, but also so I can life the fullest way possible. These choices are all ways I show myself care. They are in no particular order: 1. I don’t own a dress. I