Gin & Lemonade is a disability lifestyle and parenting blog, sharing my adventures fighting ableism, promoting accessibility, and picking up all the toys in my house. I’m Lorna, and I started this blog in 2010, after moving to Edinburgh. More recently, after experimenting with country living for 4 years, the family and I are back in Edinburgh. I’ve always written about my life as a disabled person. And now I write about what it’s like to be a disabled mother.…
I am a flippant reader. As soon as I read about a book that intrigues me, I MUST READ IT RIGHT NOW. This leads to lots of piles. Of books in various stages of readedness. If a book grips me enough not to read anything else along with it, that’s a GOOD THING. I usually have several books on the go. A day book, a night book, a car book. Day books happen on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Audiobooks happen on…
I was born in Dallas, TX I grew half-way up on Long Island, NY. I wrote my first short story about a family of mice when I was 7. Purple is a way of life. I have CP. It’s not a BFD. But sometimes it sucks. I’m 36. And I’ve recently started to look my age. It’s kinda neat. When I was younger I wanted to act on TV just so I could forget my lines and end up on…
Sharon at Hyperactive Inefficiency and Susan at LostnChina have given me the Versatile Blogger Award. This means a, you really, really like me or b, my ramblings are truly aimless or iii, I am Waffley Versatile. I can take all three. Thanks a bunch. In the name of blogging community, I’m going to share yet more random factoids about myself. Here goes: I used to think that I was born in the wrong era. I have since made peace with…
Lorna loves to write. Her first short story, written on a yellow legal pad when she was six, starred a family of mice. The next year, she wrote a poem about black roses, which caused her teacher to request a meeting with her parents. Lorna has been trying to cheer the hell up ever since. She was a kid on a New York Island, and grew up in the Highlands of Scotland. While there, she couldn’t wait to get off…
