Author Archives: Bryce Schaufelburger

No, I will not be making any resolutions today. Not a one. No, it’s not because I don’t believe in ‘New Year’s Resolutions,’ not at all, it’s because I do. But for me, today’s New Year’s is the result of a calendar flip. This may be cause for celebration but not, necessarily, in my experience, […]

Yesterday the Ruby and Sadie came for a visit. They had arrived excited because we had planned to go to “Hidden Figures” at the theatre across the road from us. We got in, claimed our seats and settled. A second or two later Joe and the girls headed out the pick up popcorn and drinks. […]

I was sitting at the top of a very long ramp. It takes a second to get my courage up. The mall nearest us is really done in two parts, one south of Bloor Street, the other North of Bloor Street. to get from one side to the other you obviously have to go under […]

We’d had lunch and, unexpectedly, had nothing to do for about an hour before the bus came to get us. I’m using my manual chair a lot because my power chair is in the shop and my scooter needs a new battery. I can’t afford to fix both and, right now, the priority is the […]

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you simply stop being you and instead become a representative for every disabled person in the world. In fact, this isn’t really about disability, women can easily be in a situation where they become all women, and gay people, all gay people, and God knows, black […]

Image description: A picture from a colouring book: a young girl sits in a wheelchair holding a basketball and smiling. The picture is coloured in and the colours used are blue green and orange. The artist who coloured the picture is a 7 year old girl and she has signed her name, “by Sadie”.   […]

When we pulled into the disabled parking spot, she was already out of her car, in her chair and being pushed by her son. I only noted that they were talking and laughing, clearly anticipating the movie they were there to see. I got myself into my chair and rolled over to the curb cut, […]

  Photo description: An accidental photo taken by my phone, not me. In it Ruby is wearing a white dress and white angel wings, that she made herself. (There is no picture of Sadie because the school asked audience members not to post pictures on line that have children other than your own in them. […]

  (A short post for today. I had to be out early this morning. Got home from the Christmas pageant late. So no time to write. But a moment and a meditation from last night …) The Moment We were sitting off to the side. I’m glad because if I’d been sitting anywhere else I […]