Cards for all occasions
In the same column as the ungrammatical babysitter, there was also a letter from a reader who had scleroderma, which had affected her hands, and wondered about the etiquette of handshaking.
I was delighted last week to get an e-mail from the Scleroderma Foundation praising my response and asking if they could reprint it in some of their materials. What I want to share with you, though is this--among other things, I'd suggested that the woman who sent in the question "could get some business cards printed up with few basic facts about scleroderma and a link to a useful website, such as that of the Scleroderma Foundation, scleroderma.org."
Well, it turns out that the Scleroderma Foundation already has business cards like this printed up!
If you have any kind of disease or disability that people ask questions about, you might want to see if there's an support/research organization or foundation that has similar cards for your own condition. Such cards are a good way of letting people educate themselves without invading your privacy.
Who is Miss Conduct?
Robin Abrahams writes the weekly "Miss Conduct" column for The Boston Globe Magazine. Robin, who has a PhD in psychology from Boston University, has worked as a theater publicist, organizational-change communications manager, editor, stand-up comedian, and professor of psychology and English. She lives in Cambridge with her husband, Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, which are given annually for achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think.
