This post is not about my quest to achieve a 5K push. But. It begins there. Yesterday I thought I had it in me to make 4K. I’d done some smaller pushes but had topped out at 2.6K. But I was itching to try for 4 and I’d arranged it so that I had time […]
My disability has meaning. My disability matters. I just had someone say to me that they ‘don’t think of me as being disabled.’ I’m afraid I rather lost it on them. Sadly, I was a bit incoherent in my response because the statement upset me so very much. You see, like many people with disabilities, […]
Yesterday I arrived at a meeting nearly an hour and a half early. Traffic had been better than anticipated and, then, well, um, I got the time wrong. So in that hour and a half I decided to lap the mall that the restaurant was attached to, I mean, why not? Joe decided to head […]
I ended up chatting with a young fellow, to me that’s around 30, with a disability on a ride to work. He asked me what I did for a living and then told me about his job, about which he was quite proud. Without even lowering his voice to become conspiratorial, he openly said that […]
I just had a food accident. On the trip from fork to gob there is a bit of territory over my shirt that has to be traversed. A piece of yolk leapt from it’s bed of toast and landed on my shirt just beside the buttons, near the top. I quickly brushed it away and […]
I’m glad I started weight lifting. Now don’t think of me as anything more than a sit in the wheelchair and lift 25 pound dumbbells 30 reps, 10 at a time, in 8 different ways kind of guy. That’s for me, weight lifting. But besides the benefit of being able to push myself further and […]
I was startled when I saw his name of the ‘Today’s Birthdays’ list on my FaceBook page. Of course, I realized, FaceBook doesn’t know that he died last year. I clicked on his name and was taken to his page. It’s still there and several people used the opportunity of his birthday to write about […]
I remember, years ago, when I was called to be on a panel discussing Special Olympics. It was to be a sports panel and the question being debated boiled down to: “Special Olympics, it’s cute but is it sport?” This was to be on the CBC on an early Sunday morning. I agreed to be […]
Warning, I’m going to quote a conversation that I got pulled into with two people with intellectual disabilities. A boyfriend and a girlfriend were discussing who they were, not to each other, but to the world. I’m going to use the words they used as risk of offending every reader. But to be true […]
“I can do it myself, mom,” he said. “Oh, I don’t mind,” she said, picking up his tray and taking it over to empty it’s contents in the trash and then stacking it where trays are left for pick up. I don’t know if she saw his face, I doubt it, because people who think […]
