We went to Sadie’s First Communion this weekend and, it was there in the house of God, that I realized, again, how difficult it is to live one’s beliefs. Particularly one’s deeply held beliefs about what it is to be disabled and what it is to have a right to space. I’d been to this […]
The movie started at 10:40 so I arranged for WheelTrans to get us there at 9:00. That would give me time to do some laps of the mall, at that time in the morning there are few people there and I can get a good speed up. This particular mall run also includes two ramps […]
“You’re an odd one aren’t you?” he said to me after he offered me help, which I refused, to get up and out of my chair to transfer to the car. Now nevermind that I consider that a really intimate service, which I need from time to time when my disability acts up, I think […]
Without much hope I went on the website looking for an accessible apartment. The older we both get, the more we really need a place that we are safe in. I was surprised to find that there was one available, it wasn’t where we were looking, it wasn’t where we had planned to live, but […]
Feelings are a weird thing for me. I try to be aware of the feelings of others and sensitive to how my behaviour might affect someone. I don’t always succeed. I don’t always realize the hurt I’ve caused until later, sometimes much later. My guess is that most of us are like that. But, my […]
Over the last several weeks, my weights have gathered dust. First, I was deathly ill for several days, mostly from an adverse effect of one of the anti-biotics that I was put on, then, immediately upon recovery we were gone on a 17 day road trip. I did exercise during that period, less than I […]
Did you watch the video? Were you moved or inspired by it? Did you see it on Facebook and pass it along so others could be moved and inspired? Before you took the story to your heart, before you passed it on, did you investigate to see if it was true? Well I did. and, of course, […]
Ya deal, ya just deal. When we left for the airport, we sat in the lobby of the hotel waiting for WheelTrans, when it didn’t come on time we called and found that I’d mistakenly booked it for 4 in the afternoon, not 4 in the morning. Whoops. Grabbed the car, had to use valet […]
I lost my wedding ring. We got back to our room in the hotel in which we were lecturing and I pulled off my wheelchair gloves and noticed that it was gone. We searched everywhere. We spoke to the hotel manager and the conference staff and the organization manager and I announced it to the […]
The last several days have been exciting, challenging and frightening. I don’t know why but I decided, when invited to speak in Minneapolis and Rothschild, that I would do three new lectures, one of the them a full day one. I had grown comfortable with the day long lectures that I do, I was perfectly […]
