Category Archives: Rolling Around In My Head doing damns the darkness/ A Blog By Dave Hingsburger

Wallets are a big deal to me. I take a long time to pick out a wallet. I am very specific in what I want from it, and, to me, it’s the most private thing that I own. In fact one of the biggest fights that Joe and I had in the nearly 50 years […]

Yesterday was a really hard day for me. I felt chewed up. I felt spit out. These were feelings that were really hard to shake. The fact that I know that we all have bad days doesn’t help. There are moments, which are universal, but when experienced feel very singular. And that was it for […]

This morning I went to Google, typed in “Down Syndrome News” and waited the nanosecond it took for the search engine to present me with the results. My goal was to see, on World Down Syndrome Day, what I would find. I do things like this with expectations, here I expected to find an article […]

When the girls arrived on the weekend we asked them if they’d like to be part of the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade that would be happening on Sunday. There wasn’t even a breath of hesitation. “YES!!” And then the talk was immediately of costumes and we added into the plans a trip to the dollar […]

Beauty and the Beast was on the top of the list for what we had planned with Ruby and Sadie this weekend. Knowing that a lot of showings had sold out, we arrived at the theatre for its first showing and about 20 minutes early. We bought our tickets and were ushered in. What with […]

We all agreed to meet a Tim’s. It’s located right beside a grocery store, and we needed to pick stuff up for supper, as well as being a convenient place for us all to meet for a tea and gather up the girls and their stuff for the weekend. Joe and I arrived early. I […]

Vampire or werewolf, which will I be? I can never tell, but, it will be one of them. I wonder if others of you who are wheelchair users have similar experiences. When I wait for an elevator, I wait off to the side, giving passengers room to exit. However, even though you’d expect that those […]

We are not “product people.” When we get ready in the morning it takes minutes, the expression “shit, shave and shampoo” fits us well. So when I was in Boots in Heathrow to buy both shaving gel and balm, because we’d run out on the road, I was taken by the buy 2 and get […]

How come whenever I see three people together, two walking and one pushing the wheelchair, I never see the person in the wheelchair being anywhere but in front of the pusher and the other walker beside the pusher? I never see the ‘non-pusher’ walking beside the person in the wheelchair. How come when I see […]

We arrived home to the warmest welcome possible from the security guard, they call him the concierge, working at our building. We hadn’t seen him for 4 years and were surprised to see him back, he’s 77 after all and, he’d be okay with this, looking every day of his age. He’s a man who […]