Of Battered Aspect

Photo description||: A rainbow coloured heart with the word love written across it over the rest of the sentiment ... makes a family. Fa...

So we landed in Calgary. The flight had been fine, the service great. No problems. Only a couple more worries left. I was confident that w...

Photo Description: Air Canada plane flying west over water. The alarm went off early. We got up and showered. No laying about. The b...

Photo description: Police officer giving a person in a wheelchair a ticket. Officer resting his foot on the foot rest of the wheelchair. ...

Photo Description: Road sign reading 'Vulnerability Just Ahead' ... protecting the vulnerable. I heard someone say that yester...

They settled into their seats behind us just as the lights went down and the previews began to play. They were a couple probably 15 or 2...

Picture description: The word 'out' in capital letters surrounded by a purple bacground. I feel a responsibility, both as a disa...

Photo description: close up of an eye, the iris is purple.  I was just about finished getting my hair mowed when she came in. She was a ...

Disability pride? Unashamed living? What does it look like? It looks like a little girl doing a dance. I wept watching this video...

Description: Drawing of a broken heart, the heart looks torn down the middle and is the colour of bruise. Across the image is the word ...

I was asked a question in a seminar that I was giving, "The Ethics of Touch," that took me aback, not because it was inappropriate...

Photo Description: Line drawing of a sneaker with the laces untied.  Words. Qualifiers. Diminishers. Words. Sneaky, sneaky words. ...

I thought it was a battle to which the winner would be proclaimed 'the most polite.' That's what it seemed to be when the door o...

Annoyance. It's part of the experience of daily living for everyone. Everyone. And in many cases the annoyance is understood, people a...

There is a certain kind of stamina required if you are going to lecture, travel, lecture, travel. I've been off the road for a few month...

Photo Description: A blue statue of a man's face with two hands, one on either side of the face forming chairs. Set in a park. Joe is ...

Photo Description: 9 rows of blue children's windmills placed in a park on grass, just coming green, in front of a tree coming into...

It's a bit of comeuppance to be faced with your own biases and prejudices all in the space of a few minutes. Well, that may be an exag...

Photo Description: Ink pen laying on papers filled with script. Note To The Freaking World (and especially the guy yesterday who yelled...

A couple of years ago I made a complaint regarding accessibility with a theatre and, surprisingly, got immediate action. They called me, ask...