I read a post on Facebook by a Mother about her teenage child, she wrote that there were times she wished she never had kids. Then she explained in detail what her son did that made her so angry. I’m not in her situation, I don’t know her pressures, but what he did didn’t sound […]
“Good for you!” her enthusiasm broke through my concentration as I compared ingredients in one can of veggie chili with another. I like shopping. I like looking at prices and products and making informed decisions. I don’t like my disability giving people some kind of perceived permission to break into my life, grab my attention […]
So, I was listening to someone as they told a story. I was part of the group and, like everyone else, was enjoying the ease with which the story was being told. The punch line of the story ended up being that the main person in the story ended up having an intellectual disability and […]
I fell into conversation, a feat in and of itself, with a woman pushing a heavy cart along side me while I pushed myself, both of us struggling with the plush carpet. She was remarking on how difficult the plush made it for wheels and I was agreeing. It’s been a couple weeks now that […]
I wasn’t very nice to someone today and I’m not happy about it. Sometimes I’m just a jerk. I went into a session, that I really wanted to attend, and found, again, that there was no seating provided for wheelchair users. Conference hotels have never, ever, in my vast experience of them, taught their set […]
I’d done with fiddling, for now. No doubt I will go at it again tomorrow morning. I’m going to be giving a workshop at NADD here in Niagara Falls. I’ve been playing with the presentation while looking out my window which directly overlooks the falls. I’m trying to present first the idea of ‘disability context’ […]
It’s dark. I’m still coughing. Another morning of feeling a little sick and a lot uninspired. I started to feel badly on Joe’s birthday. Poor man. It was his 64th birthday and I had to cancel everything planned and simply go to bed. We were in Edmonton and I had lectures to give, and even […]
Today the boy I met at 16 turns 64. Wow. Here we are in Edmonton on a road trip that has had us, so far, on four different plane rides, with one more to go. And he’s almost a pensioner. I, however, am 63, and will be for a delicious couple of months more. He’s […]
Things happen because they happen. Sometimes I, when I’m feeling that life isn’t going my way, want to imagine that I have one of those dark clouds over my head that follow me around, but I know that’s not how it works for me. Things happen because they happen. We’d finished a day’s work and […]
When we travel and there is a significant time change, we always come a day early to get into the ‘zone.’ The older we get the harder this is to do, I guess that’s one of the things that comes with age. After having breakfast with our hosts, Joe and I set out to explore […]
