Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled Archive The Joy of a Disabled Life Author: Kelsey Ward | Feb172022 Categories: Critical Essays No comments Nancy Mairs’s 1996 essay collection has a clear, singular, and unfortunately still radical intention: to demonstrate to “readers . . . who need, for a tangle of reasons, to be told that a life commonly held to be insufferable can be full and funny.”