My grandma and grandpa in Michigan had an old basement from the early 1970s with classic wood paneling. There was a make-shift beauty...

How do we learn from our mistakes? Do we diligently take note of the situation and deeply analyze our decisions to create a rapport of...

The next day, a Wednesday, I slept in only an hour more than usual, still earlier than most people who went to school. I knew I needed...

I am unsure where to start in this story. I think I will start with how this story ends: I compromised my surgery because I had an...

Disability Culture @ U-M was one of the first organizations to inspire this blog. Prior to attending some of the meetings of Disability...

For me, vacationing is a bittersweet span of several days or weeks. There is a lot of thought that goes into mentally and physically...

Instagram. Doordash. NPR. All of these examples are apps one can download on their phone. They have different, perhaps purposeful...

Hearing Loss. Chronic Illness. Hearing Impairment. Crohn’s Disease. Although medically necessary (and even then), terminology surrounding...

I find there is beauty in choice, not because of the answer given, but because of the questions asked. One such question, which I admit...

This post talks about blood, so please take the time you may need to approach reading this article! In childhood, the color red surfaces...

I sat in the passenger seat of my mom’s aging blue Aspen on my 16th birthday in the parking lot of a Baptist Church our family, or at...

No one understands me, no one gets it, no one looks like me, no one will accept me, no one will love me, and the death of a thousand...

A compelling description of silence comes from Ralph Ellison’s masterpiece “Invisible Man”: “‘Then silence, The lonesome hole banked with...

In the last two blog posts, I spun the yarn of my story of entering and leaving music school, and how those decisions teetered on my...

“let our possessions be undone / in one single alarming destruction, / allowing things to sound / like a river / and let the sea / with...

“this / very moment, it is carrying / sand, it is eating / from our hands, / grab it, / let it not slip away, / let it not lose its...

I first heard about Spoon Theory at an MBLGTACC (Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Asexual College Conference) keynote speaker...

“Growing up, I knew the price of milk in dollar signs and stomachaches”. “I live with a ringing in my ear like a doorbell going...