The View from Down Here

The musings of an Aussie seeing the world from waist high.... from a wheelchair

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6WS.2

My six words
beautiful day filled with wonderful surprises

6WS

I was looking through my NetNewsWire collection of blogs and came accross this concept on C Beth’s blog. Six word Saturday.  Described more fully here, its basically to describe your life in that moment or a thing in your life in a phrase containing 6 words. During this disciplined blogging exercise I thought I’d try [...]

Blogging with Discipline

I like this idea.

I can relate to what Beth talks about. I have tended to be one of these writers;
There are times when my mind is filled with more blog posts than there are days in the week, when everything in my life can be easily put into a witty and/or meaningful bit of writing.
I [...]

In the Carnival again

Whilst assessing my statistics the other day, I noticed that after nominating myself one month to the Down Under Feminist Carnival I find I have once again been nominated for this.  I’m thrilled. Thanks Mynxii. 

the great dichotomy

Feminist Scribbler makes some very familiar points in her post about managing the often dichotomous reactions to disability from those closest to us.
I will expand on this post in the next few days.

a big blue line going up

It started with early morning garbage collection this time without swearing or very loud male gossip. From bed with the laptop on the floor I checked my BlogTracker stats. I got a huge pleasant surprise: my stats and hits had gone up quite markably. This as a result of FWD/Forward picking up this post on [...]

intergrated blogging

I have incorporated 3 lonely stranded blog posts from a half started typepad blog here. These are from a long time ago Dec 06-Jan 07 but I thought they were worth bringing into the fold. Apart from a comment I added to one entry regarding a missing immaterial photo I made no edits (though I [...]

100 posts.

In September 2005, while traveling I started this blog. That was a long time ago in both time and headspace.
I have had many hiatuses from this medium, hence the four years to get here. I have had a variety of topics, many self serving muses. But I’m still here and I enjoy it.
The choice of [...]

identity matters

This is a good post about identification as a person with a disability, for a women with a mental health issue.
It brings up some interesting thoughts for me about “what actually is disability?” That’s medical vs social model stuff, but its not just that. Its about the labels we as people with impairments use to [...]

writing stuff

Wish me luck

Installing Love

This is so nice….
Tech Support: Yes, how can I help you?
Customer: Well, after much consideration, I’ve decided to install Love.  Can you guide me though the process?
Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?
Customer: Well, I’m not very technical, but I think I’m ready. What do I do first?
Tech Support: The [...]

so, so yesterday

In a vague half hearted attempt to find blog statistic tracking tools for this blog I found this. It’s a discussion of the trends around blogging; whose doing it, whose reading them, how often people update and burn out rates. Its an interesting read which traces the rise and it believes fall of the phenomena. [...]