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The Last Walk
The latest in my digital self-portraits and landscape series’. It depicts me walking in my doctoral regalia in the day of commencement. The walk (and plants/building in the background) was a familiar and wheelchair accessible route from the nearest parking garage to my office/classroom building.
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Mask Week of Action 2023
Masks belong in healthcare because Covid is not over, Covid is airborne, and patients deserve to be safe. Last week we called on medical professionals to remember why they joined the profession in the first place, the oath they took to “Do No Harm”, and that they CAN choose to be kind and protect their…
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Hidden Lake at Dusk
A digital “oil on canvas” painting of a lake surrounded by trees.
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Two Approaches to COVID Safety, Depicted Two Ways
This scenario was a response to several encounters on Twitter involving women who were extremely well regarded in their respective [credentialed] expert fields. It began as a digital pencil sketch. I recently had another of these encounters, and exhausted/angry/frustrated I returned to my sketch, adding digital oil paint overlay. One scene, two ways, more than…
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Neighboring Backyards, Spring
Landscape series, digital “oil on canvas” panting inspired by neighboring backyards in North Georgia beginning to bloom for Spring.
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Marsh on a Cloudy Spring Day
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Lakeside Docks
Digital “oil on canvas” painting of a small boat docked in front of some old buildings.
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The Breaking Period: Follow-Up
Just over a week ago, I wrote about the uniquely horrified and yet unsurprised understanding held by disabled people who predicted this watching the pandemic “breaking point” (aka breaking period). Early this week, I got news that the breaking period had graced our close friend group—and it was anything but graceful. The breaking period crashed…
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The Breaking Period: View from My Wheelchair
To everyone who has ever had to say “no, I really can’t use the stairs.” I don’t know what our path forward is, but I am secure knowing our community has only gotten tighter during COVID.
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Landscape Series – View from My Drive Home, Autumn
oil pastel landscape (digital). This painting is based on a sharp curve I used to pass on my commute. It depicts the empty blacktop pavement curving almost 90 degrees to the left, surrounded by falling orange, red, and yellow leaves.
Medical Sociology on Wheels
Comments on Health Beliefs, Risk, Mitigation, and Sociological Research Methods, a Disabled Perspective