The Kamloops Self-Advocates is a newsletter for people with diverse abilities published by Krystian Shaw. June 2016 edition KSA Newsletter 2016 contains This month’s theme Hope those of you that come to Fun Fest enjoy the event and the Disability Awareness Week booth! Feel free to send in comments or pictures […]
“We’re In This Together” BC People First Society Conference and AGM May 4 and 5th 2016 at the Coast Westerly Convention Centre Courtenay, BC, Vancouver Island -So what happened at Conference? – BCPF Board of Directors present at Conference (front back left to right) Michelle Goos, Michael Mclellan, Jerry Laidlaw, Dave Sherritt, […]
Let’s talk about friends, and I mean best friends. I mean the kind of friends you can count on. Most people have known them forever, or for at least 5-10 years, and they will do almost anything together. You can talk to them when you’re having a bad day, or just to chill out, but […]
I’m hurting as I type this. Aching all over. No, this isn’t a hangover from the ‘thing’ I had, that’s just left lingering fatigue and lack of energy, this is something else. I decided this morning to get up and do my exercises. I hadn’t done them since the first morning, when I learned in […]
We were walking back to the hotel along a sidewalk of a large outdoor mall. I was acclimatizing to being outside my home and work neighbourhoods. You see, even though I live in the centre of Canada’s largest city, and even though there are thousands of tourists on the streets, year round, where I live […]
It’s not in the act. It’s in the needing. Yesterday I knew for certain that I was getting better. I had been really weakened from being on the road and getting sick. This would be true for anyone, of course, so please don’t make more of it than it is. I managed to make it […]
Being sick isn’t fun. I got a bug on the road that I’ve not been able to shake. We drove 16 hours straight to get home so I could get in to see the doctor. End result? I’ve been grounded from travel for a couple of weeks while tests get run and doctors get seen. […]
It seems like forever since I’ve written a post. I’m sorry. I try to write here daily and document stories from every day life. I’ve had a lot of stories but haven’t had much of the way of energy in writing them. I’m on my first long lecture/consulting tour of the year and a week […]
Image description: The sun as the head on the ‘wheelchair’ symbol with the wheel turned into a clock showing the time 10:55 We are staying at a hotel directly across from a small mall that has a lovely movie theatre attached to it. When we got up we checked movie times and decided to […]
Image Description: Person in power wheelchair with arms up embracing the space around. Twice yesterday I had people grant me space that wasn’t theirs to give and for which I needed no permission. It’s an interesting kind of privilege when people feel that they are able to cede me the space I am currently […]
