We were just leaving the ‘Abilities Expo’ pushing up by a number of vendors. We’d had a really good time. Then out of the corner of my eye I noticed something wonderful happening. There were many vendors with vans made accessible and things to make van’s accessible, Joe and I didn’t spend any time there […]
Today I’m going to the Disability Expo here in Toronto and I’m wild excited. I am looking forward to this for a variety of reasons: I work with people who have disabilities and I think I’m responsible for keeping up on what’s out there to assist me people with mobility, with communication, with having fun. […]
We went south to meet up with a friend for coffee. He goes to a gym and had suggested that we have coffee in the small coffee shop in the gym complex. I was interested to take a look at his gym to see if, like mine, they had the same range of accessible equipment. […]
In an article on Gay Star News, one of three sites I go to for news about LGBT issues, Shannon Power wrote an article on Churches in India writing an open letter calling for the decriminalization of homosexuality. She wrote that: “The National Council of Churches in India represents about 14 million people.” I know it’s […]
When I first saw it I felt a twinge on sadness approaching despair. It is impossible as a Canadian not to be overwhelmed by the news flowing north of the border, it is impossible not to be shaken by what we hear and see. The most recent comments by the President of the United States […]
When we got to the center Joe parked as close to the door as possible. I got out and began to push myself up the slight hill to get to the door. I have done this for a long time and it’s now a fairly easy push for me but this time I was pushing […]
In my work to develop Disability Informed Therapy, I’ve been looking at disability as a social phenomena. We need to understand that my physical experience of the world is different from those without disabilities, but that my social experience is equally different. These are not small differences, these are huge. Non disabled people, even those […]
Growing up, I remember an incident on the playground that involved a pratfall and, of course, the inevitable teasing. When we got back into the classroom, many were still giggling. The teacher, whose name I don’t recall, directed us to silence. Then we heard a passionate speech, from the teacher, about compassion and concern for […]
The turn was sharp, the passageway narrow. I was just making the turn when an man, about my age, grunted in frustration behind me. I then heard him leave, hurry around the side and enter the back entrance. There were two tables left, he took the corner table, I aimed for the one next to […]
Joe and I are members of a ‘walking club’ at the mall. Our mall has two levels, and it’s 1.4k to do the top and .6k to do the bottom. We joined in July of last year and have tried to get over and do the circuit a few times a month. We stopped by […]
