Tim Benjamin, Editor

The holidays are here again!   Access Press has been blessed over the last year.  I hope each of you have been equally fortunate and hopefully we will all be more prosperous in 2004. Kevin Kling has been gracing our pages for several months now. I hope everyone has been enjoying his stories.  The only thing better than reading his stories is hearing him tell them.  On Monday, December 15, Kevin will be performing, “Tales From The Charred Underbelly of The Yule Log,” at the Guthrie. I've never seen his Christmas shows but after reading his stories these past few months, I can't wait to see it!  I hope to see you there. Thanks, Kevin, for the laughs. . .

Mental Illness/Brain Disorders

Amy Buys A Rose

by Pete Feigal

At the end of the month, when her disability check comes, Amy buys a single, long-stemmed red rose. It costs $2.93. It’s very precious to her, a luxury purchase, because after her rent and utilities are paid, she has $84 dollars left to live on for the next 30 days. Out of that $84 a month has to come food, clothes, shampoo, haircuts, shoe laces, stamps, toilet paper, everything. She calculated it once: $84 a month multiplied by 12 months, divided by 365 days. That leaves her with a grand total of $2.76 a day to survive on, in 2003 with a terrible chronic illness. . . . .

Spirituality and Disability

Scrooged!

by Derek VanderVeen,

Making your way in this crazy world can sometimes seem damn near impossible.  When you have a disability you often times find yourself weighing what you may want to do against what you’re able to do.  It’s a constant battle, pitting your own soul against reality.  Even if you don’t believe in kismet—if you believe that we determine our own destinies through our behaviors—you have to believe that every response we get in life is in direction proportion to the preceding choice(s) we made. . . . .

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