Reprioritizing
It didn’t work. On Friday I had a 1 1/2 hour meeting. It was no big deal – we were meeting on Skype, from the desk in my office area and really shouldn’t use too much energy. Or so I thought. Because it turns out that thinking and focusing uses a lot of energy. At…
Respecting the Crash
By noon last Tuesday, I was exhausted. This is not a good sign two days into the work week. I kept going, pushing through the haze of tired and somehow made it to the weekend. Saturday was spent moving in glue and looking with dread at a week filled with entirely too much, but not…
In Other Words: Thoughts on Language and Disability
On January 23, someone I know forwarded me a link to an article (now gone) from the Canadian national newspaper the Globe and Mail. The headline “Rheumatoid Arthritis: not the life sentence it used to be” is certainly an attention grabber. It is a good article. It’s accurate in its discussion of the science and it…
Show Us Your Hands! Launches Photo Book Project to Help Raise Awareness of Inflammatory Arthritis
Show Us Your Hands! Launches Photo Book Project to Help Raise Awareness of Inflammatory Arthritis (February 14, 2012) – Show Us Your Hands! is pleased to announce its Photo Book Project, the latest in a series of successful initiatives aimed at uniting the community of individuals who are living with inflammatory arthritis, and increasing the…
Tinks at the ROM
This weekend, we took the Tinks to the Royal Ontario Museum so they could see dinosaurs – ‘scuse me, DINOSAURS! – for the first time. Liam quickly found one and posed happily We’d rented a wheelchair for Mormor (Danish for Grandma) so she could enjoy the day instead of walking miles. I think the kids…
Liberated
It is almost Valentine’s Day and tales of love flutter about wherever you look. They are like verbal cupids with wings made of verbs, nouns, adjectives and altogether improper punctuations, for love brings with it a gush of emotion not responsive to the strictures of grammar. And these tales of love are this year…
Silent Poetry Reading: for Claire
Updated November 10,2021 Every year (more or less) on this day, I participate in the Bloggers Silent Poetry Reading on the Feast of St. Brigid. I’ve never been able to find out how it originated, but went with the flow of what I saw around me, posting poems I liked. I’ve posted an ode to…