Of Battered Aspect

Independence. I was chatting with a friend who was telling me about going swimming with his kids at a public pool in Toronto. He goes ther...

Yesterday we were at an event with Ruby and Sadie and their mom. It turned out not to be a really 'safe environment' for me. I was s...

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Photo Description: A bearded wheelchair user in a blue shirt is in his wheelchair on an 'ergonometer' and exercise machine for peo...

I'm going to tell you what we did yesterday, but I'm a wee bit worried about doing so. I don't want you to think I'm braggin...

"I feel stupid all the time. I didn't feel stupid today." This may be the best compliment I've ever gotten from someone ...

The existence of ramps and cut curbs does not guarantee the existence of accessibility. Ramps and other adaptations are there because of leg...

Travel back 25 years in time. Maybe a few years more. I was a Behaviour Therapist working with people with intellectual disabilities primari...

We went to the movies the other day, to see Bohemian Rhapsody, and when I got to the door of the theatre it was being held open by an employ...

It comes to an end. The saga of my chair being stolen, please don't tell me it wasn't, from the door at the airplane is done. For...

The first guy offered me an apology. He was there to help get me from one place to another and, after finding out what had happened, that ...

A knock comes on the door. It's room service. I am still sitting in the old wheelchair. I don't want to get used to it. I don...

The airport wheelchair feels wrong to me. It holds me without supporting me. It has angles I'm not used to. It fulfills a function, that...

As is my habit, upon arriving at the airplane door, I spoke to the lead flight attendant. I pointed out that I was using my own chair, that ...

We are safe. But not yet quite sound. Yesterday morning the alarm didn't go off, my fault, and we were then in a panicked rush to get ...

When in New York City, we stayed at a hotel in Times Square. We did this for a couple of reasons, one was we love the energy of Times Square...

We were in Time Square in New York City just before a street show was about to start. An area had been made clear so that 5 or 6 performers ...

Sometimes the most powerful conversations need only a message, not sound, not words, not speech, just a message. We went to the mall after...

I don't mean to bore you with my take on life with a disability but there are themes that are ever present in our lives. If we were a sy...

A few days ago I had to go down to Service Ontario to renew my driver's licence and my health card. When I got there the line up was out...