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For as long as I’ve been the editor of Homebase, the hardest part of my work has always been to write my editorial. Once it’s completed, I can lay out the rest of the magazine in no-time flat but I have to wait until the editorial is just right in my mind and then input it quickly and without stopping.

I want it to be personal enough so that you all know me a little bit but not so personal as to duplicate many of the talk shows so prevalent on our televisions. I also try not to get too preachy or haranguing (I’m like a dog with a bone when an issue captures my attention).

However, my sister, Stephanie arrived from Austria to spend three weeks visiting so I’ve been busy chatting and catching up and trying to cram a year’s worth of togetherness into these short weeks. It’s really interfered with my editorial writing (you need to picture my eyes rolling back in my head at this moment)!

The theme for this issue, Women Coping With Disability, elicited many thoughtful and poignant articles, from both new and veteran Homebase writers. A warm welcome is extended to first-time writers Jan Adamson, Barbara Corcoran, Kelly McDonald and Kate Marshall Flaherty.

A special thanks to all of you who wrote prose rather than your usual poetry or research pieces - being able to depend on your support gives me the energy to put the finishing touches together to produce Homebase.

A plea for help: Kate Marshall Flaherty is not a MAW member but she submitted several lovely poems back in January. At the Spring editorial meeting it was decided that we would use her poem, The Swimmer, in this issue. Somewhere, between then and now, gremlins have absconded with her address. If any of you know Kate, please let her know that I would love to send her a copy of her published poem and that I can be contacted via e-mail at info@mothersarewomen.com or toll-free at 1-866-667-6297.

Congratulations to long-time Homebase artist, Dawna Saba, who was awarded the Waterloo Award for 2001 for her “innovative community achievement”. The award was presented to Dawna for her work in founding Bertie’s Place, a children’s drop-in centre in Waterloo, Ontario.

In addition to her community work, Dawna has also returned to Conestoga College to study for a degree in the Occupational / Physiotherapy Assistant Program. Dawna will graduate in July 2002, at which time, she jokingly states, she plans to get a "real job". As always, Dawna’s whimsical cartoons and lovely illustrations can be found throughout Homebase.

Oh, about that haranguing. Don’t forget - if your child has a teacher you really like and respect, make sure to write a letter of support to her/his principal. Teachers need to know we notice when they do well.

Warm summer greetings to you all and may the good weather continue after the children get out of school.

Cheers,

Lisa Menard
Editor
Homebase