I want to understand what my clients need to do in order to access health insurance for academic language therapy for dyslexia, so I'm testing it on my own insurance plan. It has not gone well. Let me preface this by saying that I believe my particular insurer - UnitedHealthcare - is not a great... Continue Reading →
Strength or Weakness?
Someone asked a job/career board earlier this week "what graduate degree should I get after being laid off?" A perfectly fine question, but it struck me as backwards. The question came from a view of themselves as lacking, as deficient. This person wasn't asking what they might do with the skills they had, or how... Continue Reading →
The Novice Year
Rowing has a term for a person in their first year of competition - a novice. I was 14 in my novice year, exhilarated and subsumed, like anyone newly in love. Everything about rowing interested me, from the intricacies of the stroke to the way we put the riggers on the boat. I was a... Continue Reading →