Of Battered Aspect

I backed into my place, at the opera playing at our local cinema, only to be spoken to harshly and rudely by a woman who indicated that her ...

On Friday, after work, we went with a friend for a cup of tea. This tea shop is a particular favourite and I feel oddly like it's '...

178 What's in a number? If I was a child that would be a 'jingle jangle' of pennies. If I was a dog that would be a 'n...

Yes, it's true, I've been lecturing for a long time. I've literally spoken to hundreds of thousands of faces, and double that in...

(Got home late, wrote quickly, to bed early, big lecture tomorrow. Blog very rushed, not even proofed.) She sat at the end of the row, her...

Introduction: I get asked fairly often to write things for other people. Forwards or chapters in books, articles for journals, pieces for ...

This week is a week of travel and lecturing. I'll be teaching both people with disabilities how to be safe and trainers to train people ...

Today is 'Family Day' here in Ontario. It's really an excuse to have a day off in February, and all of us who get the holiday ar...

We ended up having a bite to eat at a fancy dancy diner very near us. Its the kind of place that people go to to find food that removes the ...

I had something odd happen to me this week. Two people, independently of each other, came to me to apologize. Each time when they said, ...

It took place in only a couple of seconds. However, it will take considerably more words to explain. I noticed her too. She came out of a st...

My blog has been very heavy over the last few days. I recognize that. It has also been very 'text heavy' ... which is apparently the...

In response to my affirmation of pride yesterday, I received an email. It was a fairly painful read and I've been emailing back and fort...

I have a disability. I am a man with a disability. I am a disabled man. DISABILITY. I do not have a challenge. I am not special. I am ...

Staring at the wands didn't help. I was being given instructions for how to operate the machinery that would allow me to broadcast a lec...

WARNING: I am in foul temper. I hope tomorrow to have the blog ready that explains this temper. I've tried writing it but anger is see...

An odd little encounter. I was driving north, home from a lunch of the best portobello fajitas in the world, on Yonge Street. A woman with...

I'd been warned. It was a warning that I heeded. I still remember sitting chatting with him in an Edinburgh lecture hall. He was a lifet...

I knew what this blog post was going to be before it happened. I'd had it all planned. I got to work and felt sluggish in my chair. Sinc...

Long bus rides, especially in the darkness of a winter morning, can't help but evoke thoughts and memories. Looking out a window, with f...