Image description: The number 97 with the word ‘courage’ written in the ‘9’ and ‘voice’ in the ‘7’ under those numbers are the words ‘and counting’ Everyone heard her. Well, not everyone, it was clear the person she was speaking to couldn’t hear her at all. We were leaving the store, our bags all […]
Image description: A set of four stairs with the words ‘KEEP OUT’ written on the bottom two stairs She turned to come down the ramp just as I came through the door. There was plenty of room for me to move over to the side to let her descend and then pass me. I […]
Image description: A rectangle with a yellow dot in the middle. Yesterday was a wonderful Easter day. We’d booked WheelTrans to and from the church and we were picked up at both ends right on time and had direct rides both ways. Church was wonderful and we had several conversations that were both edifying […]
Image description: a drawing of a semi colon surrounded by a blue sky I saw a woman with an odd tattoo on her wrist. It was a semi colon. She noticed me glance at it and then asked me if I knew what it meant. I told her that it was yet another grammatical […]
Image description: A fat person in a wheelchair with a big red bag of perpetual gratitude on the lap. When I exit the building, in my manual chair and on my own, I need to do it by myself without any kind of assistance. If people want to help they do one of two […]
Image description: a group of chairs set up lecture style I go into a lot of rooms that have been set up for a lot of people. I also go into a lot of rooms which are set up for small meetings where only a few are expected. All these places and spaces are […]
Image Description: A side image of a head with showing the brain which is full of thoughts like, ‘I’m stuck’ ‘In the way’ and ‘back up slowly.’ Yesterday I wrote about trying to get into the clinic where I go to get my blood drawn. I described a needless barrier and how people watched […]
Image description: Two heavy looking stands with cordon strung between them I went down to the clinic to have my blood drawn as per a request from my doctor, routine stuff. I was tense all the way down because I knew that it would be a difficult process. I’m not, shall we say, a […]
“Happy New Year! I hope you all feel inspired by my goals for this year and choose to face some big challenges of your own to conquer during year 2016. So far I have been faced with much larger health struggles than I ever anticipated and my biggest challenge is to stay positive during such […]
May is my busiest month of the year. I take the Hell’s Gate tour, up in the Fraser Valley one day. All the museums and gardens out in UBC another. The aquarium in Stanley Park along with the harbour tour, on a Third. In Squamish I visit both the train and mining museums then take […]
