It doesn’t happen often, it may seem so because I’ve written about weird things that happen at the gym, but by and large I’m treated with respect and given the gift of invisibility when I work out at the gay. I don’t want to be stared at when exercising, and I’m not, with rare exception. […]
I left Joe to wait at the door as I headed to pick up the final thing on my list for him. The mall was busy but there were stretches where I could go all out. Push my chair as fast as I could. I was over enough that someone coming out of a store […]
It is sometimes hard to Christmas shop for Joe because when I’m in a store or mall, he’s usually beside me. We do a lot of this together. He gets to do his during my work hours, because he has time to wander the shops, but me, not so much. Gotta be careful that there […]
So this happened yesterday. Background: My doctor is fully aware of my distrust of the medical system and in accessing health services. He has never challenged or doctorsplained away any of my concerns or fears. He knows I come with a long and vast history of interactions that were disrespectful because of, first, my weight […]
He may have been about 14 or 15 years old, out with a bunch of his friends. They were a noisy bunch, banging into each other as they walked, laughing loudly, and generally being boys drunk on their own testosterone. I’m not fond of groups of teens, they so often see me as an easy […]
I rounded the back of the car and pushed myself up the cut curb. I think the crunching of salt under my tires caught his attention and he looked over at me. The school’s principal waved and commented on the mild night, I did too. He didn’t break his gait when he saw me, he […]
She is upset. Very upset. She sits down to talk to me during the morning coffee break. She is attending a conference wherein am presenting to staff at an agency in the morning and will be presenting to people with disabilities they serve in the afternoon. I usually prefer doing it the other way round […]
Have you ever had a behaviour that you wanted to get rid of, an impulse you wanted to control or a goal you wanted to achieve? Have you ever tried everything for change but find that you keep making the same bad decision over and over and over and over again? That’s me. Right now. […]
Three conversations: 1. At the gym, for exercise, I go up and down the ramp somewhere between 10 and 20 times. I’m not travelling for a bit so I want to do exercise that keeps my ‘pushing’ skills at their max. It’s a long ramp, a good grade, and it really works my muscles. I […]
So we were headed to the elevator when one of the three women, all pushing their babies in strollers, used the ‘R’ word in a sentence. As it turned out they ended up right behind us as we waited for the elevator to arrive. The door opens. I turn to both back in and to […]
