Image description: A photo of a moment in the movie where Margaret is being pushed in her wheelchair by Alan. Joe and I decided to see The Lady in the Van on Family Day, which is a February holiday in many parts of Canada, and we knew we’d have to go early to […]
Image description: Side view of a man, with an obvious cold, he has tissue at his nose and a tear running from his eye. I have a cold. I’ve had it for the whole long weekend. My nose is clogged, I’ve gone through a few ton of tissue and as a result my […]
Today, in Ontario, and various other parts of Canada, it’s a holiday. The real reason the government instituted another stat holiday was because our Februarys are so bleak that we all needed a day off to both lighten and brighten our souls. The day, here, is called ‘Family Day.’ This was instituted to celebrate families. […]
Image description: Dave and Joe standing beside each other, August 1997 The box arrived in the mail. It came unexpectedly only because I had forgotten that my parents, several months before, had said that they were going to be sending a bunch of stuff our way. They were downsizing and wanted me to […]
Image description: In typewriter font, and in capital letters the statement, “THE WORLD IS MINE” I didn’t notice, at first, how distressed she was. I had tried to get into the pharmacy to do some shopping but it was impossible. There were a lot of people there, standing in line for the cashier, who […]
It’s always a shock, isn’t it? No matter how much you time you spend preparing, you can’t. Death comes, always, to the unprepared. He was a man that I worked with many years ago. I came to know him and his family well, his staff, ever changing over the years, always knew of our continuing […]
Image description: The word ‘HARD’ in black and white block letters This will take some describing. We were unable to get a picture because it was so freaking cold! I’d gotten out of the car and had turned my manual chair to face the door we would enter. As I mentioned in an earlier […]
Image description: Angie Nethercott and I beside each other holding our awards Last night at the banquet hall of a large hotel here in Toronto, Angie and I represented our respective agencies, Hands The Family Help Network and Vita Community Living Services as we received an award for the Direct Support Worker newsletter that we […]
Image description: A blackboard, surrounded by an orange border with the alphabet inscribed on it and with an apple and a pencil at the bottom right corner. On the blackboard in white letters are the words SCHOOL DAYS. I was on the phone to her mother when Ruby arrived home from school. She called out, […]
Image description: A yellow ball with the words ‘over easy’ the over is written upside down and placed atop the word easy. On Friday, my mind was full of concerns and questions and worries. Joe and I were driving off to the hotel where we would stay the night before the Saturday presentation to parents. […]
