Shopping during the holidays is something that most people abhor. I’m not most people. I like shopping, period. Any time, any where, I like shopping. The only proviso would be, I shop in real stores, not those Canadian Tire kind of stores. I was out looking for a present for Joe when I came across […]
We were having lunch an my friend Susan was telling us about visiting a brand new hotel. While there she noticed a thing or two about accessibility which made the place less safe for people with disabilities than for those without. Susan doesn’t have a mobility disability but she said she’d learned about it from […]
It’s not about the wheelchair, I know that, so why was I taken by surprise? I’ve seen many pictures of dogs in wheelchairs, I’ve loved them and even used them as a banner for my Facebook page. And what I liked about the pictures, besides the dog of course, was the wheelchair. The wheelchair […]
It was crowded and I was getting off the elevator. I’m driving the old scooter because my chair is in for repair. As I’m still not quite familiar with the dimensions and the capability of the scooter, I turn down the speed when I am about to drive into a crowd. Particularly a crowd of […]
Do you ever, stop, for a moment and consider your heart? Do you ever have a second of doubt about your capacity for kindness? Do you ever worry that you’ve become too busy or too preoccupied or too self important for the time it takes to be compassionate? I was brittle today. Needlessly. In the […]
Do you ever, stop, for a moment and consider your heart? Do you ever have a second of doubt about your capacity for kindness? Do you ever worry that you’ve become too busy or too preoccupied or too self important for the time it takes to be compassionate? I was brittle today. Needlessly. In the […]
It was snowy and mucky out and as Joe parked the car I asked him if he’d push me into the mall so that my gloves didn’t get wet. I know, I know my tires would be wet, but what wheelchair user doesn’t know how to roll back and forth on welcome carpeting in order […]
They looked at us with expectant eyes. How can you refuse expectant eyes? Well, I have managed that for several years now. But, this time something was different. Ruby and Sadie have a Christmas Pageant coming up and, like every year before, we were invited to come. They had described, with great excitement and anticipation, […]
There are times when disability is simply exhausting. And I’m not even talking about simply the energy that it takes to manoeuvre in a world not created with you in mind, or dealing with the attitudes of those who feel that for the grace of God there they did not go. For me, this past […]
Well, that wasn’t planned. The whole day was organized, to the minute, but when they say “shit happens” they ain’t far wrong. We were at the hairdressers where Ruby and Sadie and their Mom were getting their hair done. We dropped in to visit but there was a special reason we were there, Ruby had […]
