Winner/Weekend with Lucy/Buskerfest
First, the winner of the Annual Shamelessness Contest. Although they claim there were 20 comments, in reality, there was 15 – oh, how I loathe this commenting system. I asked David to pick a number between 1 and 15 and the winner is comment #12. Congratulations, Julia! Check out my Flickr page and contact me…
Annual Shamelessness/Contest
This week has kicked my arse. There was a lot of work, there was forgetting of moving slowly and subsequent consequences, there were various disability related expenses hemorrhaging, much delay of certain administrative things that really shouldn’t be delayed, Buskerfest has started and although I’m sure I could get a good rant going on minimal…
Hard Conversations: When RA Affects Your Work
The shoulder has ripples and I talk about work, at work… “‘Can you work at all?’ I was in the middle of my two weeks off to heal, hadn’t shown any signs of healing yet and was talking to a friend about how I felt, sharing my worries about what it meant for afterwards. For…
Book Review: Endurance
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew of 28 set off on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition on the ship Endurance, intending to cross the continent of Antarctica via the pole. They reached the Weddell Sea and their ship became encased in pack ice and over the duration of the Antarctic winter, slowly crushed. At…
Tinks with Bubbles
The Tinks came this past weekend and Mormor (Danish for grandma) had bought bubble paraphenalia. And we all had a glorious time. John got us started with a couple of beautiful ones The Janne had to outdo us all I got into it, too But let’s not kid ourselves. The most important people there were…
Leadership
What makes a leader? There’s passion and determination and the ability to inspire similar passion in others. A belief in doing what’s right and the willingness to do that, even though it isn’t popular – the recent healthcare debate in the US is one example. I saw another example somewhere within the past week about…
Bridging the Distance
It is both a memory and a defining moment, overlapping and coexisting and still, a decade and a half later, it is as clear in my mind as the day it happened. I was working for a municipal government, part of the team that implemented Ontario’s dearly departed Employment Equity Act. This was a brilliant…
What If
It’s been hard to ignore, but I’ve done my best, mentally erasing the implications of the two marks just below my left knee, the tiny ends of the suture waving back at me with a decidedly insouciant air. They’re right there, couldn’t be more in the my field of vision if they tried and every…
Preparing for Your First Appointment with a Rheumatologist
This week on MyRACentral, I get practical: “There you are, on the sidewalk outside your doctor’s office, a referral to rheumatologist in your hand, your doctor saying I think you may have rheumatoid arthritis ringing in your ears and somehow, the world is tilting a little. Nevermind possibly facing the rest of your life with…
Favourites
I spent a significant part of the summer in the company of one of my very favourite books, one that I’ve now read about seven times or so. Every time, it is just as good as the last time I disappeared into this world between its covers (or megabytes, if you’re looking at the audio…
