We were successfully on the bus. I had had the sole responsibility for getting the kids up, dressed, fed, and on the bus on time for our trip to see Joe sing in the church choir. We worked together as a well oiled machine. I was strapped down up front and the girls were asked […]
Please feel free to make suggestions for changes … I’d like this to be fun and funny and accurate … so I’m open to making changes: 12 Days Dis Christmas On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me: an apartment I can poo in. On the second day of Christmas my […]
He arrived just as I was nearing the end of the aisle. Because of the displays a narrow passageway had been created. One person at a time would be able to make it through. I am expert now in knowing if my chair will fit through any particular space and was sure it would accommodate […]
Joe was in the choir on Sunday. He’d been working toward this for a couple of week, dutifully heading off to choir practices even when he didn’t much feel like it. He was singing in both morning services but as Ruby and Sadie were spending the weekend with us, we decided that the three of […]
Have you ever wanted to grab words, that have spilled out of your mouth, and pull them back. Make the said, unsaid? I was chatting with a woman who had told me only a few minutes before that she wasn’t looking forward to the holidays this year because times were tight. She had managed to […]
I got on the bus, heading to my work’s annual holiday party, looking forward to the evening ahead. It’s nice to spend time with people without the pressures of day to day demands. The driver wasn’t chatty. At all. I asked him how many pickups and drop offs before we got to where I was […]
As I was thinking about today, International Day of Disabled Persons I came across a link that completely turned around my thinking. The theme this year was about the future. I hadn’t read the theme closely but I was happily thinking about tomorrow’s tomorrow and what that might look like for disabled people. But, the constant devaluation of […]
It was hard for him. I was even harder for the staff. And harder still for his parents. But, oh my, was it worth it. A discussion was happening about a fellow with an intellectual disability, regarding his future, in which a fairly major decision needed to be made. It was a decision that would […]
We were surrounded by death, and memories and a sense of deep, deep, loss. When we first entered the room we didn’t understand what we were seeing. The accessible entrance is off to the side and back a bit. We saw that the room had large quilts hanging from the balcony above, effectively making a […]
Something happened to me today that’s never happened to me before. I’m nearly 64 so that takes some doing. It was a simple thing really, but it took me aback. We were in the line up at the grocery store, we both nodded to the woman working there as she is often assigned the accessible […]
