I was involved in the planning of celebrations for the December 3rd International Day of Persons with Disabilities. I started planning the event in October with the help of South Island Community Council. We had a panel of people involved in the planning with myself, a police officer from Saanich, Doug Tenant from Recreation Integration […]
Image description: A notepad with ‘Let’s begin by taking a smallish nap or two …” by Winnie the Pooh written on it. Monday, January 04, 2016 It’s going to be hard setting the alarm tonight. For the first time in over two decades, Joe and I took some significant time off during the holidays. We […]
Image description: A cartoon showing a variety of different ways of unplugging a toilet without a plunger. I just heard the toilet flush. What a beautiful sound! Our toilet stopped working yesterday. It was immune to plungers, prayers and pleading. I searched the web to find ways to unplug it. We used the sham-poo and […]
Image Description: Large blue type reading: Be honest with yourself first. I received some really nice feedback, both in the comments and from several emails, about my post yesterday about New Year’s resolutions. As a result of one email, when someone mentioned something I’d not realized I’d written, I went back to read the […]
Image description: On a cork board, four red pins are at the corner of a note that has the word Resolutions underlined at the top and then the numbers 1., 2., 3., down the side. Nothing is written beside the numbers. I usually don’t make New Years resolutions. We all know how quickly these […]
Image description: 5 word bubbles sayin: no thanks, no, uh, nope, no. We had finished our shopping and, as is our habit, I left Joe to go through the line and pay for the groceries while I headed over to a small shop to buy the week’s lottery tickets. It costs exactly 14 dollars […]
Image Description: Cartoon of a man saying “I complain therefore I am!” My wheelchair is very ill. They had thought that it was just the battery, so they came and 1000$ later, I had two new batteries. (An aside, what makes wheelchair batteries so freaking expensive. Given that they only last about a year […]
Image Description: A finger, on a switchbox, is turning the power off. I didn’t realize, when writing yesterday’s post, that today was coming. Today, we have to stay in to wait for the wheelchair repair people to come and take a look at my power chair. I am desperate to have it back even […]
Image Description: The words FULL STOP painted in orange on a metalic gray wall. For the last two days, we’ve been cosseted in our apartment, with virtually no contact with the outside world. Once the door closed, on Christmas day, behind the last of our guests leaving, a silence fell in the apartment that […]
Photo Description: Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, head and shoulders shot, in front of a microphone. Photo Description: Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, head and shoulder shot, looking at his own glowing nose. When I was a child, in the early grades of school, I loved the song “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer.” I knew all […]
