Chris Herbert is an entirely decent man. You may not recognize his name right off, but you have probably heard his story or read his post which has gone viral. You may have seen the hysterical picture of the plastic shark ‘attacking’ and ‘eating’ his missing leg. He’s a dude with a sense of humour […]
This morning I was thinking about Santa. I was trying to remember how old I was when I learned that there wasn’t a Santa in the suit and reindeer sense. I think I was 9 years old. Most kids in my class had told me that there was no Santa, teased me for still believing, […]
There was a small cluster of people standing around the family washroom, all waiting quietly in line. There were Joe and I, along with Ruby and Sadie, there was also a staff of some kind with two very shy girls. We’d all just seen ‘The Good Dinosaur’ – a somewhat disturbing animated film. The girl, […]
So you ever have this experience? You call up to buy tickets to a show you really want to see. You carefully and repeatedly ask questions about seating and about accessibility. You are told that where you are going is completely accessible, that they take pride in their commitment to accessibility. You are, foolishly, reassured […]
Photo Description: the image of a broken window with the word Lies in red letters behind the break. We pulled over and the driver opened the door and then stepped aside to wait for the woman who was making her way from the door, walking slowly, to the bus. When she got on I […]
I was sent a link to this picture yesterday and I’ve come back to it several times. I, of course, checked out the link and found that it was for spinal cord injury, peer support. I also liked their tag line “enabling independence through social interaction.” It’s a site that clearly gets the need for […]
I woke up this morning and nothing had changed. Nothing. At all. Canada, or the part of it I could see out the window, was unchanged. The larger Canada, the one that I hold in my heart that looks remarkably like the map from the grade 5 classroom with the provinces all different colours, was […]
(Photo description: Thousands of candles making up the red ribbon that is used to memorialize people lost to AIDS) Right now… It’s six o’clock. In the evening. The world has gone dark. What I remember from the early years of the AIDS crises, is the silence. The long hours and days and weeks and months […]
Yesterday I wrote about teaching about bullying and teasing to people with intellectual disabilities and I mentioned a moment. After identifying reasons that I was bullied, the class had been struggling with this question: I’m fat all the time and I’m in a wheelchair all the time and I’m disabled all the time, but I’m […]
Monday, October 05, 2015 “Of Course!” Photo Description: The yellow Election’s Canada sign pointing to a polling station. The disability access symbol is on the sign, which is pointing downwards. Voting is a serious matter for both Joe and I. We are voters. We try to be informed voters as well. To us, voting is […]
