CreativeTheresa: "I'm Literature in the Making."

“I need a ride home” is what I’m always requesting when there is some program that I’m interested in attending at my university. I’m not able to drive and the city transportation is very limited in the evening hours.  It makes me feel awkward that I have to entice someone to give me a ride. Other times I decide to forgo the event, because I don’t want to feel like I’m a burden.

The transportation issue is a major issue for me. I tried to discuss this problem with a college in...

I have many church questions:

That is my confession

All the things that I was taught since I was little

Seem to be nothing more than a leaf that whittles

Church says they are kind, compassionate, and considerate

But they are opposite in every way-

Cold, cruel, and condemning

They make outsiders feel demeaning

What a bunch of hypocrites!

That’s why I just give up and quit

I still believe in God-

But I don’t believe in the church anymore.

They are nothing more than an eye sore...

“It’s okay to have a disability, but please act normal”. Sometimes I get this feeling from people. It is not that they are being mean. I think mostly it’s because they are having issues accepting oneself and that seeing another disabled person who acts “not normal” only confronts them about their own differences.

Personally, I felt I’ve been ignored or shun by other disabled people. Whenever I reach out, I get a recoil look. I have also known disabled people that are pleasant...

One word that I can describe about the book, Far from the Tree, is challenge: the challenge for people with differences to love themselves, the challenge for families to accept their loved ones as they are, and the challenge for society to embrace people of unique personalities and physical differences.

As a person with many differences, I can relate to the many people featured in the book and understand what is like to live in a society that is very challenging and confusing.

I apprecia...

I wanted Normal but Normal didn’t want me. I didn’t understand this. It really unsettled me. One day I talked to Normal: “Why didn’t you want me?” I asked. Normal replied: “Because normal is not normal anymore.” Perplexed, I asked what that meant. She said: “Normal was normal a long time ago. When people were first created, they were normal. Their life was centered on caring and loving one another.  However, when they got to be rich and interested in achievement and in ma...

We spend our whole life to obtain a title

As a result, for many, it becomes an idol

Doctor, Lawyer, Professor or Director

Something other than our name

To give us importance and acclaim

But strip away the title

And we are all still the same

We may think we are everything

By what we have obtainrd

But the core of us still remains

Our titles don’t change us

They are just a part we play

Go ahead, “Strip away the title.”

It’s nothing but a facade, anyway.

“A good writer says things that other people don't say."

Theresa McMillan

May 2013 gives us kindness and compassion that we had never seen!

The village of Haughty was a glowing city of perfection. Everybody and everything had a precise look of beauty. Whenever there was an image or individual that was not quite right, they would cry, “Fix it.”

Disabled people were welcome here but they were told to be discrete. “Don’t ask, don’t tell” was the law in Haughty. Since most disabled people wanted to be “normal,” they didn’t protest this policy.

Creepy Katey didn’t care much for laws. Especially when she though...