A Dramatically Different Direction - Softcover

Mann, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1463660650 ISBN 13: 9781463660659

Verlag: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

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A Dramatically Different Direction is a poignant, funny, and heart rendering autobiographical commentary on disability by a 66 year old, bi-racial, lesbian, Buddhist in a wheelchair. With razor sharp wit and well balanced cynicism Margaret Mann shares her unique perspective in a series of essays that offer uplifting insights about the nature of suffering. She has a keen awareness of how each of us will suffer in life to the same degree we wish things were different. From her perspective as a Buddhist, Margaret offers advice on how to deal with the sudden onset of a serious disability and the slippery slope of aging.

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Margaret Mann, 66, has spent her life as a community organizer. She currently makes her living as a writer and counselor. In recent years she served as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the local LGBT community center and the program director of the Lesbian Breast Cancer Project. Prior to returning home to Hawaii in 2003 she worked in Washington DC for twenty years for various national agencies dealing with women's issues (National Women's Health Network, League of Women Voters, Older Women's League and National Osteoporosis Foundation) or disability issues (Disability Right Council and Endependence Center of Northern Virginia). Her published works include: New Mobility Magazine, No Limits Communications, Prejudice, March 2008, Slippery Slope, November 2008, My Trip to Italy, March 2009. Columnist for The Outlook. Aloha Pride Center, Honolulu, HI, "Amazing Diversity," "When a Preference becomes Prejudice," "When Avenue D Burst Out on Stage." 2005-07. Editor and author, monthly newsletter, Life Beat, Life Foundation, Honolulu, HI 2004-05. Monthly column on legislation, Journal of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, 1999 and Editor and author, monthly newsletter, Field Advocate, Older Women's League, Washington DC, 1990-1995. She holds a Education Specialist (ED.S) in Rehabilitation Counseling from George Washington University; a Masters in Social Work from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts from San Diego State College. She served a term in the US Navy from 1968-1974, was honorably discharged as a Lieutenant and subsequently worked for the Girl Scouts in Tampa, Florida and Honolulu, Hawaii.

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• Verlag: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1463660650
• ISBN 13: 9781463660659
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 188
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