It was sunny and warm and we were on a mission. We wanted to find a particular restaurant that we knew was somewhere near by. The street was crowded with people going, it seemed, every which way. We got out of the flow of pedestrians and tried to figure out which was to go. Once […]
(first appeared in Canadian newspapers in 2011) I was having a pee. Thinking about my grandmother. Thinking about my country. We’d driven almost 300 kilometres through the wilderness of Northern British Columbia. That is to say, it was a long pee. My grandmother was born in Canada in the late 1800s. In all ways she […]
We arrive at the venue to get ready for me to do my presentation. There was so much noise inside of me.Noise, Noise, NOISE. My usual nerves about doing a presentation, things I’ve never tamed, sat on the jeering section of the grandstands in my mind right along side of the ‘you failed last time, […]
When we got in the car we saw that it was exactly 800k from our hotel. We hit the road and just drove, didn’t stop to eat (I made sandwiches in the car) and didn’t stop to pee. We just drove. Then, suddenly, we could see our hotel. We had driven 798k and our hotel […]
We arrived at the hotel with a day to spare. We had wanted to make sure I had a day to rest before hitting the consultations that I had lined up. I rested by shopping, having ice tea at every opportunity, and simply enjoying pushing myself around. It was great to be away from home, […]
After coming out of the hospital, lots of decisions had to be made. In the end we cancelled trip after trip, most with multiple stops, just to give me time to heal. These were hard decisions but the were also the obvious ones, I had to get better. Going back to work at my job […]
I’ve got to go way back in order to go forward. This is often true in life when we need to self-correct or when we need to see a moment in time in its true context. For me, it started in Niagara Falls where I had been booked to do a two day training session. […]
We meticulously planned a hotel to stay at that was within walking distance from an accessible, yes can you believe it, gay bar. We seldom get to be in gay spaces any more, most of them are inaccessible in one way or another, so we were excited. It really did take work getting there, the […]
Joe and I sat across from one another on a rare night out for supper. We travel a lot and most people assume we eat out a lot but we don’t. We typically have a microwave in the room and make our meals en suite. This gives us just a little more control over our […]
She struggled to push an immovable chair out of my way. Let me say that again. She struggled to push a chair, that couldn’t be pushed, out of my way. That’s one thing. The other was, it wasn’t in my way. The only thing in my way was her as she leaned down to try […]
