Image Description: A close up picture of a yellow strip of measuring tape. Joe was busy measuring the width of my manual chair here at home while we waited for a woman to measure the width of a door in a training centre north of us. This all happened because I was due to attend […]
Image description: The Bell Let’s Tall logo. A smiling face with a comment box over the upper right forehead with the words Bell Let’s Talk beside the logo. January 27th is Bell’s Let’s Talk Day … it’s the perfect day to speak about mental health and people with intellectual disabilities. To help foster, or […]
Image Description: An Oscar statuette I love the movies. Joe and I go to a movie nearly every weekend. I spend time reading up on what’s coming out and, I’ll admit, about the stars and about casting for movies and about controversies that erupt, from time to time, about the script or the approach to […]
Image Description: A day planner opened witht eh word Wedding on the Friday date, above the word are two wedding rings. I received an email yesterday from a young man with Down Syndrome asking me a question about relationships and sexuality. He said in his email that he had been in an abuse prevention class […]
Image Description: A drawing of Sherlock Holmes in traditional garb with a pipe Last Friday I was in a bit of a state. The restrictions imposed upon me by the break down of my power chair were very keenly felt that day. Gone was the gratitude I had for having a mobility option in […]
Image Description: A photograph of Joe, in a white shirt, and Gavin, in a plaid shirt, sitting in a restaurant with Joe’s arm over Gavin’s shoulder and his hand resting on Gavin’s shoulder. During the time of the plague, we watched friend after friend disappear. There were so many holes in the fabric of our […]
Image Description: A pathway through a park with a wheelchair being pushed along it. Only the hand pushing and the wheels are pictured. There were three of us on the bus. All of us were in manual wheelchairs. Two, picked up at different spots and meeting for the first time, were both going for physiotherapy […]
Image description: A wall full of wheelchairs and walkers in a warehouse. I rolled into a huge warehouse where there were wheelchairs and walkers and scooters, not only that there were tub chairs and toilet adaptions and crutches. Most of what I saw was in bits and pieces, with people studiously putting them together or […]
Image description: A white charicature of a person is holding a magnifying glass that is larger than it is. This morning I go to the shop to ride around in my wheelchair so that they can see what is wrong with my chair. It’s a busy day for me and the stop at the shop […]
Image description: in red captial letters “R-WORD NOT WELCOMED HERE” on pavement. Dear Sir, What it did to me when you used the R-word today you made your bigotry my problem. And I resent that. The fact that you were providing service to me, a disabled man, and in the course of that service, in […]
