Of Battered Aspect

 Hi, I'll be back to blogging a week after labour day. Hope some of you will pop by again.

We've all made it. Now can we all do it? 2020: The Year of Hindsight. I've been thinking about that over these last few days. ...

Yesterday we went to see a performance of Handel's Messiah at the Roy Thompson Hall, it's a tradition of ours and we both really enj...

We were at Dave and Busters in the arcade after having had a birthday lunch, complete with a home made purple birthday cake from Marissa and...

We were leaving the mall heading for the car. My wheelchair legs are a bit low and often scrape the ground when I go down cut curbs. As a re...

Occasionally when out in the car we will pull up to a set of lights that are places of employment for those who ask for money. Their signs u...

Sometimes existence is a political act. Being different in public space requires an act of defiance and a reclamation of ownership. I belo...

Joe went to get the car as I waited just inside the door of the mall. As soon as I caught a glimpse of the car's blue, I headed out the ...

Before we left we decided which of the two movie theatres we'd go to, how we'd get me in, and how we'd deal with the slope when ...

I like where I live. I am lucky, really, really lucky. I have a fully accessible home, a rarity where I live. This means that I have every...

I was sitting at an event right beside a woman with an intellectual disability. I'd seen her around and we'd chatted a couple of tim...

I made it to the door. It was cold. Really cold. My fingers were stinging from having to grab cold metal to push myself along a sidewalk tha...

I don't think anyone heard us. We were speaking quite low. But what was happening was that three of us were talking about materials ...

On Sunday we decided that we needed to inject a tiny a bit of class and culture in a weekend Netflix 'Dynasty' haze. To meet that en...

Kindness. This month's issue of ' The International Journal for Direct Support Professionals'  is one that I wrote on what it ...

It was the morning after the first snowfall of the year. Much more fell that we expected and, as we were up early getting ready for me to go...

Photo Description: Close up photo of a gentle faced doberman /German shepherd mix Right now, as I'm writing this, Lucy is sitting be...

Photo Description: Three maple leaves one brown, one yellow and one red are placed over the words "Happy Thanksgiving. Credit: This w...

The last item was scanned and the clerk turned to me and asked, "All ready for Thanksgiving now?" I looked over the bounty packed ...

I hear a lot of straight people congratulating themselves on the presidential run of Pete Buttigieg. Even here in Canada people who speak ...