by Kate | Dec 4, 2007 | Uncategorized
>A recent study found that, among the 21 major occupational categories, the highest rates of depression among full-time workers aged 18 to 64 were found in the personal care and service occupations (10.8 percent). This includes people who help the elderly and severely...
by Kate | Nov 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
>Since I started this blog, I’ve been hunting around for a theme for it. I’m a person with M.S. who is committed to the process of creativity, but that’s all background. I wanted something less vague. Over the last two weeks, it has emerged: This...
by Kate | Nov 13, 2007 | Uncategorized
>I have heard many complaints lately about how today’s young people suffer from a sense of entitlement. They feel (say the complainers) like they deserve the best at all times. I’ve been struggling with entitlement issues in the last week or so.What set it...
by Kate | Nov 6, 2007 | Uncategorized
>After somewhat frenzied work over the past two weeks, my artist’s book of Mac and his Monster has been delivered to the MS Society. Yay!Now I have to reverse-engineer the creative process in order to write about it and use those pieces in the final-final of...
by Kate | Oct 22, 2007 | Uncategorized
>For months, I have known that I needed to journal my way through an art project and include that writing in the book. My thesis is that the stages of the creative process parallel what I go through dealing with chronic illness. I started by trying to create some line...
by Kate | Oct 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
>The Pew Internet and American Life Project released a new study yesterday about the way people with disabilities and chronic illness use the internet. They chose, God help us, to “refer to internet users who have looked online for health information as...
