She’s starving. Her staff can see that somethings wrong, but she won’t talk about it. She needs little support, she can manage her own money, she can shop and cook nutritious meals, she is well liked in the building in which she lives. When staff visits, she’s strict about her privacy. They can come in […]
My faith, whatever it goes through throughout the year, is strongest at Easter. I am not supposed to be a Christian. By loving me, God is acting in defiance of Christian doctrine. Being gay, excludes me from the family of God, though any family that excludes and banishes its children us unworthy of the word. […]
Most of the time it’s just a simple, pleasant way to live your life. Most of the time, it gives you a high quality of life. When I was a boy, even though I was considered a fat, dumb, kid, I noticed that there were those people in the world who were just simply nice. […]
It’s been a long week. And I’m still weak. But I’m better. I fell ill on Monday and it worsened over the week. I had three days off from work, but had to work Thursday, but came home and near collapsed from exhaustion. People think otherwise but I don’t actually get sick often. Particularly as […]
I saw a post on Facebook yesterday written by a woman who, that day, was getting a wheelchair and she was devastated. The comments were all caring, if ablist, about how hard she fought for, with an implied loss of, her independence. Now, I don’t know this woman. I see her name every now and […]
We’d just gotten into the car to head off to the Palm Sunday service at our church. and Joe fired up the engine after all the seat belts were well and truly secured, when Sadie asked to play a ‘car game’ called ‘ABC Animal.’ This is a game that has been played over many, many years and […]
We were huddled up around the soup station. Sadie loves soup. Joe loves soup, I like soup and wanted to see what the veggie options were, Ruby reviles soup and was just with us to see what decisions were being made before she went over to the mac and cheese station. Joe was reading off […]
This post is not about my quest to achieve a 5K push. But. It begins there. Yesterday I thought I had it in me to make 4K. I’d done some smaller pushes but had topped out at 2.6K. But I was itching to try for 4 and I’d arranged it so that I had time […]
My disability has meaning. My disability matters. I just had someone say to me that they ‘don’t think of me as being disabled.’ I’m afraid I rather lost it on them. Sadly, I was a bit incoherent in my response because the statement upset me so very much. You see, like many people with disabilities, […]
Yesterday I arrived at a meeting nearly an hour and a half early. Traffic had been better than anticipated and, then, well, um, I got the time wrong. So in that hour and a half I decided to lap the mall that the restaurant was attached to, I mean, why not? Joe decided to head […]
