Teri Doolittle

Pope Leo's lent message didn't say you have to give up social media, just to be kinder to others while on it. So, you're good. :-) press.vatican.va/content/sala...

A take off the Lion King... nope! In Lion King, he would be Scar and his followers would be the hyenas.

My delightful neurodiverse adult son just said, "Look, it's Rata Clause!"

So true. That can be at the HR level, where our record is flagged as a risk, or the management level when supervisors change, or at the level of peers who resent accommodations that we get and undermine us. It was worse before the ADA, but it has never been easy.

Exactly. But even 38 years ago as a clinical PA in neurology, my patients were losing jobs for lack of reasonable accommodation, and having extreme difficulty finding any new employment. People with impairments are the last hired and the first to go. This isn't new. I know this first hand.

Low skilled desk jobs at a computer... oh my goodness... they are all being replaced by automation and AI. There are many thousands with experience and certification who can't even get an interview, sending out a minimum of 5 applications a week. This idea of available low-skilled jobs is a fantasy.

Does he know how the economy ended up in the 1920's?

Caregiving is real work.

ACA Insurers Are Raising Premiums by an Estimated 26%, but Most Enrollees Could See Sharper Increases in What They Pay The amount health insurers charge for coverage on the ACA Marketplaces is rising 26%, on average, in 2026.... Most enrollees would face even sharper increases in what they pay if they ACA’s enhanced p...

Classic example of someone who only reads the first paragraph of a report. If he scrolled down he would see that this estimate is based on increases that assume the existing tax credits. share.google/XyHDpARZeG8q...

A research letter from JAMA titled "Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Housing Instability Among US Health Care Workers." Published online October 22, 2025.The US health workforce faces projected shortages of more than 180 000 physicians and 200 000 registered nurses.

Among US health care workers, rates of poverty, food insecurity, and housing instability are highest among direct care and support staff, with over 1 in 4 experiencing food insecurity.

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I wish I were a fly on the wall...

The City Beautiful!

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

Congressmen who are doing "District Work" instead of being at their job in Washington should be required to be onsite in their District office full time, monitored with productivity metrics. They should complete a weekly report of the Five Things they did to directly serve constituents.

Maybe Biden had a secret Time Machine! I wonder if he has a long stripy scarf, and carries jelly babies in his pocket...

Reasonable accommodations... I saw this coming.

My last experience (of a few) was that I had to get all the way to page 5 or 6 of a ~12 page printout to find exactly what was missing. Then appeal while submitting documentation with a certain form to a completely different examiner. It seemed ultra-litigious for customer service.

I just looked at my Annual Notice of Change for my Medicare Part D coverage for next year. Part D alone is going up over $50 a month for each of us.

If I were in charge... the ability to add documentation to SSA applications or approvals without having to go through an entire appeal process. Instead of an agent opening and closing cases, a concise online doc showing exactly what is needed or missing in order to approve. Then, an agent review.

‘It’s devastating’: Hermitage clinic serving patients with developmental disabilities set to close A Hermitage clinic that serves hundreds of patients with complex intellectual and developmental disorders is set to close at the end of the month. Families say this is devastating as it’s the only hea...

From AADMD, a Tennessee clinic for people with IDD is closing due to budget cuts. www.wsmv.com/2025/09/04/i...

I'm pretty sure this is a big part of what they meant when they said they wanted to weed out the low performers. 😔

Jesse did a report on Social Security Administration clawbacks for mistakes they made in payments. That series of reports prepared us for when it started to happen to someone in our family! Forever grateful!

Those receiving a certificate of completion should have been those who were unable to participate in any way. If schools were warehousing kids when they should have been getting supports and working toward a diploma, that would be wrong. Sunshine State Standards and Access Points were awesome.

I don't think this article is quite right. Only 2% got a "certificate of completion" and those should be students with the most severe disabilities. Most should get a standard diploma on Access Points using alternative assessments, accommodations, modifications and supports. My son got his that way.

Someone should check all the printer rooms at hotels around the DOJ for copies of the Epstein files.

I see this another way. I put aside my career to care for my kids with special healthcare needs. Now we have relatives in their 30's, unable to work as they care for disabled parents. Job accommodations, benefits, and part time flexible work for caregivers would help. The system doesn't work for us.

When you strip away humanity

It's like our own little version of Le Roi De Coeur!

I will never grow up. 😹

It was a condition of my employment when I was teaching that I not engage with students on social media, or post anything whatsoever about my work or workplace. There were similar admonitions when I worked in a state government agency, but I doubt it was monitored. That was 20 years ago.