Howlings: Other Unique Voices

Writings

Chapter Three – The Voice

May 1971, Lory State Park, Northampton, Massachusetts. Preparing for a cartwheel, I'm wearing the "$27 bathing suit."

Before leaving for his dormitory, I couldn’t resist trying on the unfinished bathing suit. I was already wearing my favorite — and only — bathing suit under my jeans, from which I had made a pattern for this [...]

Chapter One – Revere Beach

at Revere Beach

We grew up in a city eight miles north of Boston on the ocean, a town built around a natural crescent of coastline which followed the ocean’s curve into an inlet under an arm of land called Lynn, in its cupped palm, a town called Nahant. From Revere Beach we could see [...]

Barriers a Matter of Perception

From Regional Mobility Magazine, April 3, 1986

“‘Disability is an obstacle illusion.’ Catchy phrase. With this phrase, Rose Kreston hoped the students at Colroado State University would catch Handicapped Awareness Days’ message that it is often the able-bodied community’s perceptions of disability which impede disabled people in their attempts to become an acceptable part of society.

Rose [...]