Ebook {Epub PDF} On the Whole: A story of mothering and disability by Ona Gritz

Ona Gritz has had cerebral palsy all her life, but until she gave birth to her son, she didn’t really understand what it meant to be disabled. Her cerebral palsy affects her coordination and balance but not enough to have ever truly hindered her. “For the most part, I considered my disability a cosmetic issue,” she tells us in On the Whole. “Just how obvious is it?/5(7).  · Ona Gritz has had cerebral palsy all her life, but until she gave birth to her son, she didn’t really understand what it meant to be disabled. Her cerebral palsy affects her coordination and balance but not enough to have ever truly hindered her. “For the most part, I considered my disability a cosmetic issue,” she tells us in On the Whole/5(3).  · Ona Gritz’s books include Geode, a Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award finalist; On the Whole: A Story of Mothering and Disability, a memoir; and Present Imperfect: Essays (forthcoming). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Ploughshares, Bellevue Literary Review, River Teeth, Brevity, and www.doorway.ru date: .

—Ona Gritz, author of the poetry collection, Geode and the memoir, On the Whole: A Story of Mothering and Disability. I never knew a Golem until Diane introduced us. Diane's courage in embracing and welcoming the Golem allows us all to travel with them from "believing I was gone, remembering my own life" to "hindsight is rhubarb. Ona Gritz's nonfiction is listed among Notables in Best American Essays , and Best Life Stories of in Salon. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, River Teeth, The Utne Reader, MORE, and elsewhere. Her books include the memoir, On the Whole: A Story of Mothering and Disability, and the poetry collection, Geode, a. Her book Tangerines Tea, My Grandparents Me was chosen by Nick Jr. Magazine as Best Alphabet Book of and one of six best children's books of the year by Scholastic Parent Child Magazine. Ona's memoir, On the Whole: A story of mothering and disability, is available now as an ebook from Shebooks.

Ona Gritz has had cerebral palsy all her life, but until she gave birth to her son, she didn't really understand what it meant to be disabled. Her cerebral palsy affects her coordination and balance but not enough to have ever truly hindered her. "For the most part, I considered my disability a cosmetic issue," she tells us in On the Whole. "Just how obvious is it?. Ona Gritz has had cerebral palsy all her life, but until she gave birth to her son, she didn't really understand what it meant to be disabled. Her cerebral palsy affects her coordination and balance but not enough to have ever truly hindered her. "For the most part, I considered my disability a cosmetic issue," she tells us in On the Whole. Ona Gritz has had cerebral palsy all her life, but until she gave birth to her son she didn't really understand what it meant to be disabled. Her cerebral palsy affects her coordination and balance but not enough to have ever truly hindered her. "For the most part, I considered my disability a cosmetic issue", she tells us in On the Whole.