Spreadin’ Love 434

~ Laura

Macaroni sent me a link to Holly Mathis Interiors. Pretty. She also does home and garden posts over Pioneer Woman.

Jeremy pointed me to a new book of essays by parents of special needs kids, My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities.  Listen to the audio here. I'm glad that this book is out there, but I probably won't read it. I'm done with sad books about parenting disabled kids. As much I hate Sarah Palin, I really do love the pictures of her hoisting Trig around like a sack of potatoes at her speeches.

Charli Carpenter is annoyed at Ke$ha videoes.

Henry Farrell recommends Princeton Readings in American Politics. The Table of Contents looks good (but maybe a bit dry). I used the Princeton Readings in Political Theory many times.

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4 thoughts on “Spreadin’ Love 434”

  1. I’ve read “My Baby Rides the Short Bus.” They must have gotten every other lesbian mother of a disabled child in the Bay Area to contribute. I occasionally found myself thinking “Lady, get over yourself,” but there are some good pieces in there. Another recent (2010) anthology is Gravity Pulls You In: Perspectives on Parenting Children on the Autism Spectrum. Less recently (2006), there’s also Jeffrey Cohen’s Guns A’Blazing: How Parents of Children on the Autism Spectrum and Schools Can Work Together–Without a Shot Being Fired. I read about these three books at likeashark.blogspot.com, daisymayfattypants.blogspot.com, and mamaedge.blogspot.com (the third blog has unfortunately just gone invitation only), two or three of those bloggers contributed to the anthologies.

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  2. I’m reading the short bus book (which I’ve heard about already from the “Leelo and his potty-mouthed Mom” blog. I think the book is a good one for parents of non-special needs kids to read. I can imagine that one would be done with that at some point after having lived it yourself (my experience with books about having young infants, which were important for my sanity when I was working through those feelings myself).
    But, I am finding the book an interesting read as an outsider, I just finished an essay by a mom of a child who uses a wheelchair, and how difficult it was for her to find a school that he could access (even without considering his other needs). The essay just details the story, but it helps me understand, and I think that’s important, even if it doesn’t mean that I will become a public advocate for making every school accessible. By reading, and thinking, at least when I don’t advocate that, I can have stronger notion of the cost to a particular individual.

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