By Adam Schatz Hello, my name is Adam Thomas Schatz and I am 31 years old. I live in Aldergrove BC with my caregiver, Sue. I currently have 2 jobs. I work Mondays at Home Hardware, where I unload the big rig, stock the shelves and help customers find what they are looking for. […]
By: Hannah Toman Hello! My name is Hannah Toman and I am 24 years old. I live in Aldergrove, BC with my 2 sisters, 1 brother and my caregiver. I was born in Squamish and my nationality is First Nations. I got a part-time job at A&W approximately 6 years ago when I […]
By: Mike Long I’m Mike and I’m almost 27 years old. In June 2018 I’m going to Romania for 2 weeks with 12 people (participants, staff and parents) from my day program Pathways. 7 years ago, a staff member from our program came back from volunteering in Romania. It created a connection with a […]
We stopped at a mall that we know well, we needed a break and it’s perfectly placed for us to do so. Our usual entrance, the most accessible one, was under construction so we found parking around the back side of the mall at the other end. We got out. We went in. I started […]
Outside my window is a place I cannot go. The accessible room in this hotel has a lovely view of a trellised walkway through a beautiful green space.The surface on the walkway, for me as a wheelchair user, looks welcoming for a push after work. But this whole idyllic space is not meant for me, […]
It was quite the tussle. I had gone through the grocery line, picking up stuff for the hotel rooms we’d be staying in this trip, and was about to head off. I was getting my chair angled just right so I could push the cart and chair by myself. This is something I’ve learned to […]
How we ended up in the gym all signed up to play pickle ball is a long story in and of itself, but we’ve all got the ‘I’ve paid’ blue wrist bands and we were ready to go. I’d never heard of the game before, the girls shook their heads when asked if they’d ever […]
Joe had parked the car and come round to my side of the car with my wheelchair which he had unloaded from the trunk. I stay warm and cozy in the car until I heard the plop of the mat beside my door. My disability disallows me wearing shoes and so during rain or snow […]
As he lay dying, my father and I talked, really talked, maybe for the first time in our lives. He and I had not been close, but in these moments, our history then lost importance in the face of our history now.What I discovered about my dad, the old and very frail man in the […]
Yikes! This morning we woke up to about three inches of snow on our driveway. For some reason, even though we’ve moved to a place where there is more snow and where we manage our own snow on our driveway, we never bought a shovel. So I sat at the edge of the door and […]
