On ‘the lecture’ that broke my career wide open and boosted my lecturing from evenings in church basements to giving presentations at conferences and seminars I ended up making an enemy. There were three of us presenting and I was to go last. We’d met a couple of times and I was finding it hard […]
Yesterday we woke into a morning that was -38° when the wind chill was factored in. It was a day where we had planned to go to the gym and to do some other errands. We had breakfast slowly, each knowing that when it was over, it was time to go. It took force of […]
Outside right now it -34°. Yes, you read that right. It’s so cold that I can’t push my chair in my regular gloves, I use another pair that, because of the lining inside of them, is harder to grip on my wheels. The dust from all the salt gets on my gloves and on my […]
Image description: Poster for a Mardi Gras party, will be described in the post below. When people do it right, they do it right.I was sent this image last night and was stunned by the overt, intentional, inclusivity. I don’t see it often and may never this clear. The three people pictured,, one dressed […]
There is a word I have never heard used outside the disability community. I haven’t heard it used by service providers, or by parents, or by politicians outside here in the real world where I sit and type this. It’s a shadow word that exists within and is used to describe a phenomenon known to […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about the post I wrote on New Year’s Eve about an event that happened years ago when a woman was purposefully and needless cruel to me, and whose apology I spurned that night. I’ve read all the comments on this blog and I’ve had several discussions about it with others. After all […]
There were all sorts of warnings about the bitter cold that grips Newmarket so we bundled up warmly when we went out to the First Night party being held in a sports complex near us. We were to meet Marissa and the girls there. We were able, much to our shock to get really good […]
New Year’s eve for us is not what it once was. There was a time we flew away to celebrate New Years in New York, or San Francisco or Vancouver. We’ bar hop and then get very, very, drunk and stumble back to the hotel and crash into the bed. Then, as we got older, […]
“You don’t need that!!! You are too fat already!” said a sharp and harsh voice. Though the comment wasn’t aimed at me, though I was only rolling by, I felt slugged in the gut. I’d heard those words before. I’d heard that tone before. The shame I felt for a very long time rose afresh. […]
Yesterday was my first day out of the house for five days. I’m the kind of person who doesn’t like to be indoors for long periods of time. I love my home, but I also love being out, in the world. But I’d been laid very low by a cold and cough that left me […]
