by GJ Pierce Leptien | May 1, 2021 | Blog
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MINISERIES My sister was not just 8 years older but she was a TALL teenager. i was 4 feet tall when she was 6 feet tall. She kept me tough by wrestling with me, giving me grief if I ate like a slob, and teased me if i wet my pants. She said...
by GJ Pierce Leptien | Apr 24, 2021 | Blog, US Thalidomide Story
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MINISERIES Less than a year after that lonely horrid hospital stay we moved to Massachusettes (from Va.) 1st time we lived off an Army base. We had a super cool kid-friendly house cuz the entire daylight basement was turned into a playhouse for me...
by GJ Pierce Leptien | Apr 17, 2021 | Blog, US Thalidomide Story
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MINISERIES I was born in Germany to white American parents stationed in Frankfurt. My mother had always been worried she’d get pregnant but never really wanted children. My sister was born 8 years my senior. She was born unable to move her...
by GJ Pierce Leptien | Apr 9, 2021 | Blog, US Thalidomide Story
An autoBIOGRAPHICAL MINISERIES Part One of how Thalidomide affected my life…. Do you remember that Steve Martin movie where his character starts out by saying “I was born a poor black child.” ? He said that cuz everyone he looked at, his whole...
by C. Jean Grover | Jan 19, 2020 | Blog, Disability Rights, US Thalidomide Story
Thalidomide survivors can only go so far. I am sitting right now, looking upward at a glass ceiling right above my head, so close that it concerns me. I can see where I want to go, but I just can’t get there, due to a barrier. It was placed between my goals and me, 60...
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