Tim's California Views @ Oflanagan's Net » Ben Mattlin http://oflanagans.net Start a blog, things come to you. - Views of a native Californian. Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:01:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 A Voice I Respect http://oflanagans.net/2010/01/04/a-voice-i-respect/ http://oflanagans.net/2010/01/04/a-voice-i-respect/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:57:50 +0000 Tim http://oflanagans.net/?p=97 This morning (Monday, January 04, 2010) my NPR alarm radio station brought me an oral essay from a writer I had not heard before.  His name is Ben Mattlin and he is a writer who has a disability known as spinal muscular atrophy. It gradually and relentlessly weakens muscles.

What impressed me almost right [...]

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]]> This morning (Monday, January 04, 2010) my NPR alarm radio station brought me an oral essay from a writer I had not heard before.  His name is Ben Mattlin and he is a writer who has a disability known as spinal muscular atrophy. It gradually and relentlessly weakens muscles.

What impressed me almost right away was how much his experiences and opinions matched mine and those I have previously heard from several of my friends and colleagues with disabilities.

I tracked Ben’s essay down through NPR.org and discovered he was accessible through Facebook.com.  I’m glad to say we have since become “friends” through that medium.  I’m looking to hearing more of him and his viewpoints in the future.

If you would like to read or listen to Ben’s essay you can do so by following this link:  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122066678 .

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