Yesterday I went to a presentation wherein I knew, going in, that the audience would be made up from people from a variety of different service sector, each serving different people with differing programs and services. I’m not used to these kinds of meetings, typically I go to meetings where everyone in the audience does […]
I just recently read one of the most disturbing statistics I’ve ever read regarding the lives of people with disabilities. Any of you who’ve heard me lecture have heard me quote various statistics in evidence of the fact that people with disabilities live in a dangerous world and that we must as professionals, and as […]
He was excited to tell me his story and that excitement made it difficult for him to get the words out. His mind was thirty words ahead of his mouth and that resulted in words spilling out of him like too much milk in a glass. I enjoy this. I enjoy his excitement. And I […]
I’m hurting as I type this. Aching all over. No, this isn’t a hangover from the ‘thing’ I had, that’s just left lingering fatigue and lack of energy, this is something else. I decided this morning to get up and do my exercises. I hadn’t done them since the first morning, when I learned in […]
We were walking back to the hotel along a sidewalk of a large outdoor mall. I was acclimatizing to being outside my home and work neighbourhoods. You see, even though I live in the centre of Canada’s largest city, and even though there are thousands of tourists on the streets, year round, where I live […]
It’s not in the act. It’s in the needing. Yesterday I knew for certain that I was getting better. I had been really weakened from being on the road and getting sick. This would be true for anyone, of course, so please don’t make more of it than it is. I managed to make it […]
Being sick isn’t fun. I got a bug on the road that I’ve not been able to shake. We drove 16 hours straight to get home so I could get in to see the doctor. End result? I’ve been grounded from travel for a couple of weeks while tests get run and doctors get seen. […]
It seems like forever since I’ve written a post. I’m sorry. I try to write here daily and document stories from every day life. I’ve had a lot of stories but haven’t had much of the way of energy in writing them. I’m on my first long lecture/consulting tour of the year and a week […]
Image description: The sun as the head on the ‘wheelchair’ symbol with the wheel turned into a clock showing the time 10:55 We are staying at a hotel directly across from a small mall that has a lovely movie theatre attached to it. When we got up we checked movie times and decided to […]
Image Description: Person in power wheelchair with arms up embracing the space around. Twice yesterday I had people grant me space that wasn’t theirs to give and for which I needed no permission. It’s an interesting kind of privilege when people feel that they are able to cede me the space I am currently […]
