There is a word I have never heard used outside the disability community. I haven’t heard it used by service providers, or by parents, or by politicians outside here in the real world where I sit and type this. It’s a shadow word that exists within and is used to describe a phenomenon known to […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about the post I wrote on New Year’s Eve about an event that happened years ago when a woman was purposefully and needless cruel to me, and whose apology I spurned that night. I’ve read all the comments on this blog and I’ve had several discussions about it with others. After all […]
There were all sorts of warnings about the bitter cold that grips Newmarket so we bundled up warmly when we went out to the First Night party being held in a sports complex near us. We were to meet Marissa and the girls there. We were able, much to our shock to get really good […]
New Year’s eve for us is not what it once was. There was a time we flew away to celebrate New Years in New York, or San Francisco or Vancouver. We’ bar hop and then get very, very, drunk and stumble back to the hotel and crash into the bed. Then, as we got older, […]
“You don’t need that!!! You are too fat already!” said a sharp and harsh voice. Though the comment wasn’t aimed at me, though I was only rolling by, I felt slugged in the gut. I’d heard those words before. I’d heard that tone before. The shame I felt for a very long time rose afresh. […]
Yesterday was my first day out of the house for five days. I’m the kind of person who doesn’t like to be indoors for long periods of time. I love my home, but I also love being out, in the world. But I’d been laid very low by a cold and cough that left me […]
“Those less fortunate.” This is a phrase that I think I first heard as a small child being explained the meaning of Boxing Day. I was told that Boxing Day was created so that people could box up old stuff, having got new stuff at Christmas, for the poor. The poor would be delighted to […]
First we had a problem. Then we had an idea. The problem was with Santa, or more precisely with his signature. The girls are of a suspecting age and Santa is discussed as a possibility and as a, maybe not. We all think that kids should be kids as long as they can be because […]
January 4, 2018 by DABC Videos in Reader-friendly format, ASL, and Captioned: Disability Alliance BC (DABC) has created a series of short videos on a number of topics on the criminal justice system – how it works and what to expect – in a reader-friendly format for people with low-literacy, and in sign language with […]
Recipe for month of January 2018 Prep 20 m Cook 25 m Ready In 45 m Recipe By:bd.weld “With the winter months approaching fast my niece and I co-conspired to come up with this warm and comforting soup using ‘zoodles’ that’s easy on the waistline.” Ingredients 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 cup diced onions 1 […]
