January 18th, 2017 Four British Columbians have won a 2016 Widening Our World (WOW) award for their dedication, courage and ingenuity in supporting their communities to more fully include those served by Community Living BC. The four recipients were chosen out of nearly 40 deserving people; all nominees were recognized for their efforts to build […]
Not sure if it’s because of the number of times my mother washed my mouth out with it but I developed a taste for soap. Now you won’t find me wandering the aisles of fancy toiletries shops sniffing at gently scented find milled bars of soap produced from the milk Yaks who only ate clover. […]
I’m at that age where I’ve been around for a long time, not just on this earth, but in the work that I do, that people will come to me to ask questions. The problem, sometimes, for them is that I’m also at the age where I watch my mouth just a little bit less […]
I have a problem. I think I’ve had it for quite a while, but I don’t think I’ve really acknowledged it to myself or to anyone else until now. Let me give you a three examples and then I think you’ll understand. We are having a ‘see you soon’ gathering at my next team meeting […]
Tomorrow my power chair comes back. I am conflicted. Not by the 900 dollar repair bill, which was enough to knock the wind out of me, but by the fact that I’m wondering about how to incorporate it back into my life. This stands in stark contrast as to how I felt when they took […]
Author by Cathy Grant I wanted to start off this year on a positive note, so I decided to talk about one of my favorite surprises of 2016; that being the comedy Speechless on ABC. I’m not one to get excited at all about TV but when a staff person showed me the trailer […]
Because the word ‘invalid’ sounds different when it references an argument or a point someone is making than it does when referring to people with disabilities. That little bit of difference makes it sound like it’s two different words with two different spellings, it isn’t. I’m not going to go off on a rant about […]
“It’s nice,” I said, “because I thought that being without the power chair would decrease my independence and in fact it’s increased it.” I was talking to someone about the fact that, with my power chair in the shop, I had expected to do less, to go to fewer places, to have my life significantly […]
People thought him funny. And because they thought him funny, they laughed at him. All he had tried to do was to be assertive and stand his ground. In fact, he had done that, but in doing so he made himself ridiculous in the eyes of pretty much everyone around. What had happened was pretty […]
They arrived at the top of the ramp, started down, and then spotted me, racing down towards them, and pulled back to wait. The disabled access to the north mall means going under Bloor Street so there’s a long ramp down and then a long ramp up. I enjoy this ramp because it’s got hand […]
