by Amelia Loken | Oct 24, 2026 | Hope
I live in the South. Temperatures had been in the 90s the past month. Then last Friday, the high was only 60 degrees. It felt like Mother Nature flipped the switch between summer and autumn overnight. With the cooler weather, I noticed the sunrise arriving a little...
by Amelia Loken | Aug 29, 2026 | Writing Conferences
Fifteen years ago, my writing conference preparation lived in the kitchen pantry and the hallway closet. I had five young boys at home, and while my husband is a competent, loving parent, a three-day stretch without Mom was a massive disruption to the household...
by Amelia Loken | Jul 18, 2026 | Disability Models
When you’re just starting out with photography, you don’t automatically know how a wide‑angle lens stretches space or how a telephoto lens pulls distant mountains close. You’re experimenting—pointing the camera, clicking the shutter, discovering what happens. And it’s...
by Amelia Loken | Jun 20, 2026 | Disability Models
The Rights‑Based Disability Model starts with a bold truth: disabled people have inherent human rights, and any barrier that denies those rights is discrimination. This model reframes disability not as tragedy, charity, or medical defect, but as a matter of justice,...
by Amelia Loken | Jun 6, 2026 | Writing
Slow Productivity offers disabled writers a sustainable, disability‑justice–aligned way to build a writing life that actually lasts. In his book, titled Slow Productivity, Cal Newport writes: “Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality.” That line...
