Image description: Dave and Joe standing beside each other, August 1997 The box arrived in the mail. It came unexpectedly only because I had forgotten that my parents, several months before, had said that they were going to be sending a bunch of stuff our way. They were downsizing and wanted me to […]
Image description: In typewriter font, and in capital letters the statement, “THE WORLD IS MINE” I didn’t notice, at first, how distressed she was. I had tried to get into the pharmacy to do some shopping but it was impossible. There were a lot of people there, standing in line for the cashier, who […]
It’s always a shock, isn’t it? No matter how much you time you spend preparing, you can’t. Death comes, always, to the unprepared. He was a man that I worked with many years ago. I came to know him and his family well, his staff, ever changing over the years, always knew of our continuing […]
Image description: The word ‘HARD’ in black and white block letters This will take some describing. We were unable to get a picture because it was so freaking cold! I’d gotten out of the car and had turned my manual chair to face the door we would enter. As I mentioned in an earlier […]
Image description: Angie Nethercott and I beside each other holding our awards Last night at the banquet hall of a large hotel here in Toronto, Angie and I represented our respective agencies, Hands The Family Help Network and Vita Community Living Services as we received an award for the Direct Support Worker newsletter that we […]
Image description: A blackboard, surrounded by an orange border with the alphabet inscribed on it and with an apple and a pencil at the bottom right corner. On the blackboard in white letters are the words SCHOOL DAYS. I was on the phone to her mother when Ruby arrived home from school. She called out, […]
Image description: A yellow ball with the words ‘over easy’ the over is written upside down and placed atop the word easy. On Friday, my mind was full of concerns and questions and worries. Joe and I were driving off to the hotel where we would stay the night before the Saturday presentation to parents. […]
Image Description: Test Reading GOOD MORNING Saturday, with flowers and sunshine and bees flying about. It’s Saturday morning and I’m up and nearly ready to head out and do my first presentation of the year. Today it is to a group of parents and I have to say I’m wildly excited about it. I enjoy […]
Note: there is no voice over, the only sound is that of a guitar playing gently) This morning I was on one of the two gay news sites that I visit every day. Both of them were lauding, and rightly so, Hallmark for producing a ‘kiss’ ad featuring a gay couple. I clicked on to […]
Image description: a set of stairs, viewed behind a tree, that has a wheelchair ramp zig zagging through them. When we were in Vancouver, out for a walk, many, many, years ago, we came across the Law Courts building and it was there that I first saw what I thought to be then, the coolest […]
