Susan Senator

I went to the supermarket the other day and on my way out to my car I saw a young employee walking eagerly towards a stray shopping cart. He caught my attention because his stride was a little too coltish; his smile was a little too giddy. He was "one...

Susan Senator is one of the most eloquent persuasive and knowledgeable voices out there right now on the subject of the realities of disability. She happened to pop up in my Facebook IM yesterday when I was struggling with this post about why I thought Amelia Rivera should...

Even though no one is making pithy resolutions anymore, I have one that I'm sticking with. My resolution this year is about being ridiculous. Sounds strange, but that is what it comes down to for me, a forty-four year old woman and mother of three:I resolve in the coming year...

The thing nobody tells you when you plan on having kids is how much it hurts. I am not talking about labor and delivery, though God knows that is pretty painful stuff. I am talking about what you feel for them afterwards. I remember the earliest feelings of looking at...

This is the time of year when we focus on gift-giving. I try to remember all the kids' teachers, even though Brookline schools has a policy against giving gifts to teachers, there's always some way, like cards, or baking, to say thanks. But there's often someone important I forget,...

When I told one friend that I now belly dance, she nearly spat out her coffee. "How can you do that?" she asked, "It's so repressive."

I thought about it, and I understood where she was coming from. The paleo-feminist ideal of how women should be tells us not to...

I was doing my autumn yard clean-up a few weeks ago when a woman
driving by poked her head out of her car window and shouted to me,
"Hey, did you know you have a registered Level 3 sex offender living
on your street?"

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Unlike the Winkelmans, the Ohio family that will appear soon before the Supreme Court, I have not yet had to sue my school system over my severely autistic son's education. The Winkelman case is an interesting twist on guilty until proven innocent - or, incompetent until proven able --...