Hello, I was hoping I wouldn’t have to write you but I feel I must. For the last very many months I’ve been getting really nasty comments from an anonymous person – as we know anonymity gives cowardice courage – regarding a long laundry list of my supposed crimes. I am responsible for almost evey […]
Image Description: A hand with the word ‘softness’ on the tips of the fingers. It’s been a difficult week. Full of stress. Full of illness. Full of vulnerability. I knew, yesterday, that I’d be taking today off sick. I need to get well. I’m tired. When the day finished at work, I had one more […]
Open letter to the writers, artists, directors and producers of Zootopia, We went to see your movie Zootopia with two young girls this Saturday. Before we began, I asked the girls if they would play, ‘movie scavenger hunt’ with me. They both love games and eagerly agreed. I asked them to try and spot a […]
Image description: My simple, very simple, drawing of Joe, who forgot the phone so I couldn’t take a picture, in the choir this morning. I didn’t get a blog written this morning. Between getting my exercises done and getting ready to go to church we were really rushed for time. It was one of […]
Image description: A large man sitting on a big chair, up on cement blocks with his feat on an ottoman covered in a red patterned blanket. Both Joe and I were exhausted when we got home from work on Friday. Just exhausted. At one point, when we were coming down the hallway, Joe walking ahead, […]
Image Description: A large man walking along a hallway touching the wall as he walks. I am a wall walker. I didn’t know that’s what I was until my physiotherapist used the term when describing me on the phone to her supervisor. I can walk for very short distances but I have terrible balance and […]
Image Description: A simple drawing of a heart behind bars I was 14 years old the first time I heard the name Evert George Klippert. I didn’t remember his name, or his story, or the impact of his life on mine, until I heard the news a couple days ago. By the age of 14 […]
Image description: A simply drawn picture of a man in power chair escaping from a jail cell. After work yesterday, Joe and I headed out for a bit of a wander. We knew that a big winter storm was heading our way and that the likelihood was that it would be difficult to get […]
Image Description: A bad cartoon drawing of a guy in a power chair being blocked by a standing man. Staring. Being pointed at. Being laughed at. Being made the butt of loud cruel stupid jokes. Okay, I don’t like any of those things. But those things anger me more than frighten me. To be sure […]
Image Description: Bad line drawing of a man in a power wheelchair racing a child down a sidewalk of a residential street. Just living in a neighbourhood, being out and about, you get to have a nodding acquaintance with the ‘regulars’ who you see, well, regularly. Living at the centre of Canada’s largest city means […]
