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Aug 8, 20122 min read
To Be A Hero Can Backfire
I watched people with pleasant personalities become cold hearted working with the system and not wanting to loose their jobs. I was put...
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Aug 1, 20122 min read
An Innovation to Pass the Graduate School Exam
To pass the test you get the book made to prepare you. So I did. There was a section that was just a list of vocabulary words you would...
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Jul 25, 20122 min read
Armed and Ready to Take on Graduate School? It is not so easy.
My husband had been my hero for nine years, since I meet him at 17 to 18. We loved each other dearly but circumstances beyond our control...
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Jul 18, 20121 min read
A Miracle of the Brain Is Step Six, the Easiest Step to Succeed
In desperation I looked at my lists, I had read them and still I was stumped as to what to do next. I had read and marked facts with...
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Jun 11, 20122 min read
I Did Not Know How But Step Two, Never Forget Your Dream
I could write papers, short ones not longer then one to two thousand words. I usually got an A or A+ for content and D, E, or F for...
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Jun 11, 20121 min read
Step Five Organization Helps a Lot but More to It
I made note books of the notes and put them into categories, any category that seemed to make sense. It did not really matter what the...
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Jun 11, 20122 min read
Step Four Use Your Down Time to Follow Your Passions
I had finished up my BA in psychology just a month or so earlier. I wanted to go on but I knew I was not ready for the test and that I...
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Jun 11, 20122 min read
Married With Children a Handicap Also but Step Three Always Look for Opportunity
I had married and my husband was working on his PhD at Ohio State University. I was about to have my third little boy. It was a full time...
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Jun 11, 20122 min read
New Memory Aids Step One
School and learning, like any task, is a skill that you learn. The more you practice the better you get. But with a handicap practice may...
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May 21, 20122 min read
Other Brother to the Rescue
The brother one year older then me was soon to save my college career. I had to take a class in research methods, it was way beyond me, I...
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May 16, 20123 min read
Learning On the Job
I was 18, starting my second year of college, handicapped and learning disabled, and for a month before I was to take care of three boys...
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May 9, 20122 min read
The Job I Would Never Have Dreamed of Taking
The letter finally came from the Dean of Women. I was being offered a job to live in a family with three boys, twins 8 and a 10 year old....
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May 1, 20122 min read
The Lonely but Exciting World of Handicapped
It can be a lonely world of handicapped. You have lots of different views from others. You listen to others talk quick and not slow down...
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Apr 25, 20122 min read
If There Is A Will There Is A Way
The trip home in the large truck, still the plants waving in the wind, seemed a slow progression, more like a funeral procession. We were...
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Apr 19, 20122 min read
Mom Returned With Us For the Last Time
Mom's sister moved into our house when we returned to the small town. Life was altered, it was bitter sweet. As one life was ending in a...
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Apr 19, 20122 min read
Grades Finally Came Amongst Great Tragedy
Shortly before we went home for the holidays my mom got that horrible letter. A policeman knocked on the door and served her. The breath...
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Apr 11, 20121 min read
There Is No Limit To A Mother's Love
She had gotten a job making donuts early in the mornings. We would leave the tiny town we lived in and travel to the small town of the...
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Apr 4, 20122 min read
Finals Finally Came, A New Surprise, A New Challenge
I had never experienced a week of finals before. I sat in my psychology class finals room. I was nervous as they passed out the tests....
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Mar 28, 20122 min read
Drama and More Drama, the Key
Why I began I do not remember. But I began to dramatize as I read. I guess I wanted to emphasize things into my memory. It worked well. I...
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Mar 21, 20121 min read
Reading Class
There I was in reading class. But this class was different. We worked on our own. We had lessons and question and answer stuff,...
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