“Good for you!” her enthusiasm broke through my concentration as I compared ingredients in one can of veggie chili with another. I like shopping. I like looking at prices and products and making informed decisions. I don’t like my disability giving people some kind of perceived permission to break into my life, grab my attention […]
So, I was listening to someone as they told a story. I was part of the group and, like everyone else, was enjoying the ease with which the story was being told. The punch line of the story ended up being that the main person in the story ended up having an intellectual disability and […]
I fell into conversation, a feat in and of itself, with a woman pushing a heavy cart along side me while I pushed myself, both of us struggling with the plush carpet. She was remarking on how difficult the plush made it for wheels and I was agreeing. It’s been a couple weeks now that […]
I wasn’t very nice to someone today and I’m not happy about it. Sometimes I’m just a jerk. I went into a session, that I really wanted to attend, and found, again, that there was no seating provided for wheelchair users. Conference hotels have never, ever, in my vast experience of them, taught their set […]
The Kamloops Self-Advocates is a newsletter for people with diverse abilities published by Krystian Shaw. November 2016 Edition KSA Newsletter contains This month’s theme Welcome to November everyone! November brings us Remembrance Day on November 11th. Remembrance Day is important because we remember all the soldiers. Canada is a beautiful country to live in […]
INGREDIENTS Serves 3-4 6 strips bacon, chopped 2 chicken breasts, sliced 5 ounces spinach 4 cloves garlic, chopped 2 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon pepper 5 cups milk 1 pound dry penne pasta 1 cup Parmesan cheese, grated PREPARATION 1. Cook the bacon in a large pot over medium-high heat until crispy. 2. Add the […]
Nolan Fallowfield worked with his mother Bonnie to develop his own dog treat business in his home community of Quesnel. Nolan Fallowfield is a Quesnel-based entrepreneur who transformed his love of dogs into a successful healthy dog treat business. For Nolan, who receives some individualized funding support from CLBC, it all started in his volunteer […]
I’d done with fiddling, for now. No doubt I will go at it again tomorrow morning. I’m going to be giving a workshop at NADD here in Niagara Falls. I’ve been playing with the presentation while looking out my window which directly overlooks the falls. I’m trying to present first the idea of ‘disability context’ […]
It’s dark. I’m still coughing. Another morning of feeling a little sick and a lot uninspired. I started to feel badly on Joe’s birthday. Poor man. It was his 64th birthday and I had to cancel everything planned and simply go to bed. We were in Edmonton and I had lectures to give, and even […]
Today the boy I met at 16 turns 64. Wow. Here we are in Edmonton on a road trip that has had us, so far, on four different plane rides, with one more to go. And he’s almost a pensioner. I, however, am 63, and will be for a delicious couple of months more. He’s […]
