Okay, this is a subject I’ve written about before but I’m going to take a different turn in the telling. We arrived at a hotel with a booking guaranteeing an accessible room and there wasn’t one. The clerk, handed me a key to a room, not telling me that it wasn’t accessible, even though I’d […]
Does it matter that I have a disability? Yes. It does. People keep saying that they don’t think of me as disabled. Even though I am. People keep saying that they don’t see me that way. Even though I am, quite visibly, disabled. People keep saying that I shouldn’t speak of myself that way. Even […]
While Joe was getting his hair cut I was wandering around the store. He takes much longer than I do and I fill that time by browsing. I was rushing back to the hair cutting place when I had to come to a stop because there were two people who were blocking the pathway. The […]
I keep getting told that it’s “not prejudice.” I keep getting that patient voice explaining to me that prejudice as a motivating factor is just in my mind. I keep having explained to me that, essentially, there is no such thing as prejudice against people with disabilities. After shopping for groceries in my local store, […]
Home. Our flight home. Our waiting rental car. All went as they were supposed to. The traffic was heavy because of the long weekend but we managed to survive it all and arrive home. We came in and immediately felt embraced. We knew that this space was ours and that it was tailored to our […]
Okay, we fly home tomorrow. As you read this we will be on a plane flying towards Canada. One we land it’s about an hours drive home, depending on traffic, and then we sail in to the long weekend. We’re tired from the trip but as always grateful to have had the experiences we’ve had. […]
“Hey!” said a passerby with disgust, “Don’t do that!! It’s disgusting.” Now I don’t happen to believe that this was said to the man with an intellectual disability because of his disability, I firmly believe it was because of his behaviour. He had been walking alongside his staff in a mall when he leaded over […]
Ruby is a big fan of the television show called, I think, “Charmed.” While we were here in Los Angeles she asked if we could go and get a picture of the house from the show. On Sunday, after prompting from Ruby, we checked and found it wasn’t too long of a drive from our […]
Okay Google suggested a mall for us to go to on Sunday for a bit of a stroll. The weather here has been grey and drizzling for most of the weekend, clearing up yesterday afternoon in time to let us know that the work week would be beautiful. We arrived, parked and headed in. The […]
I know a mother who kept her baby girl. Everyone told her to ‘put her with her own kind’ … her response was always the same, ‘but that’s where she already is.’ She spent her life fighting for her daughter’s right to adulthood and then she had to, with great difficulty, let her child go […]
