I had put in a really hard workout. I’d gone 4.5 kilometers on the ergometer at a resistance level of 18 which was a new personal best for me. I was bathed in sweat from that but then I moved to the second part of my workout, the cable machine. I spend about 45 minutes […]
So. Yeah. We had a busy day planned. First up, after breakfast, off to the pool, for Joe and the kids, and the gym for me. After that was home for 45 minutes for lunch and then off to see The Greatest Showman. Because of the timeline we had to cut our visit at the […]
I haven’t written a blog for several days. Life doesn’t slow down at 65 it speeds up, or maybe it’s that it just takes a bit more energy to do what needs to be done. But I have been writing. In the last few days I’ve had to write letters and make phone calls. 1) […]
Let’s Talk. I remember it happening for the very first time. I was coming down a hallway towards an office where I was scheduled for a consultation. I’d done these a thousand times before and then, I stopped, frozen. I had never felt such intense fear, ever, and by then I was a person acquainted […]
The first time he did it, I was taken aback. My first reaction was one of fear, was anyone watching, were we gong to be safe, from which direction will the attack come. My second reaction came simultaneously with the realization that we were completely alone, and because of that, we were safe. I had […]
“That’s who I am you can like it or lump it!” “I speak my mind, if you don’t like it, that’s your problem.” “That’s just who I am, if you can’t handle it move on.” These kinds of comments abound through both the virtual and real worlds. Like there is culture of pride developing around […]
Waiting for Joe to bring the car up to the entrance, I just watched people come in. I saw a young couple chatting away. He was a tall black man and she was a plumpish, but not fat, white woman. They were probably in their early twenties. He was behind her pushing her wheelchair and […]
Photo Description: a well used wheelchair that is missing one arm rest and where there are noticeable tears on the seat. My wheelchair is old, very old. It’s traveled to 4 different countries with me, every state in the US but one and every province in Canada but one, every territory in Canada but one. […]
I was sitting in my chair waiting for the hallway in to the toilets clear. Joe was trying to convince someone, who was being polite, to go first so I could get in. It was marked as accessible but it was very, very, small with little room to maneuver. And I had to PEE. The […]
Photo description: Nurses from th early 1940’s Germany standing in front of large wooden doors set into and old brick building. Joe and I went to see The Evidence Room at the Royal Ontario Museum. The exhibit presented the architectural evidence that Auschwitz was purpose built for death. We had been meaning to go […]
