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…
Notes from Editing Hell
And it continues… The editing, I mean. Although I finished writing The Book about six months ago, I am still editing and rewriting and then editing some more. And it is kicking my butt. I take great comfort in reading about other people’s road to publication. It took Toni Bernard six years to write How…
A Whispered Thank You
I’m a lucky woman. Thanks to you, my post Sensitive to the D-Wordwon second place in the Best Blog Post category of the 2011 Canadian Blog Awards. Because of you, more people now know about disability discrimination. Thank you. And why the whispering? This is how determined your body can be to make you sit…
Show Us Your Hands! Establishes Founding Committee to Help Raise Awareness of Inflammatory Arthritis
Show Us Your Hands! Establishes Founding Committee to Help Raise Awareness of Inflammatory Arthritis (January 24, 2012) – Show Us Your Hands! is pleased to announce the new collaborative effort of three leading advocates from the autoimmune blogging community. Lene Andersen (The Seated View) and Cathy Kramer (The Life and Adventures of Cateepoo) have joined…
Once We Were Caged
This post is my commemoration of the International Day of Mourning and Memory of the Lives of People with Disabilities. This is a day of remembrance of those who were institutionalized, abused and killed for being different. It is a day to remember those who came before us and who fought hard to make the…
International Day of Mourning and Memory
Dave over at Rolling Around in my Head is spearheading an initiative to create a day of awareness and remembrance called the International Day of Mourning and Memory of the lives of People with Disabilities. In his words, the day would: “be one of remembrance of those whose lives were not celebrated or remembered, the…
The Unexceptional
I have become a wuss. There have been signs that I have deteriorated into a state of perpetual whining, what with the repeated mentions about having no energy. It was starting to bug me, so the other day I asked The Boy for more objective assessment of my health status. And he said something interesting….
The Best We Can
Back to work I went on Monday, humming that song from Snow White (except I always thought it was “it’s off to work we go” and now it doesn’t make any sense at all in this post). Okay, it’s entirely possible that I wasn’t humming – I spent my week’s vacation having a massive sinus…
RA Warrior: An Interview with Kelly Young
Every now and again, I get to do something for my job that doesn’t feel like work. Yesterday, I spoke to Kelly from RA Warrior – after years of reading each other, we finally met on the phone. It was more like a chat with a friend than an interview. I love my job. “‘Imagine…
Faces, Earthquakes and Ebola: Making Pain Scales Work in Real Life
“Please rate your pain on a scale from 1 to 10.” Said by many doctors and it sounds pretty simple, right? It isn’t. When you live with chronic pain, rating that pain becomes a really complicated question. Pain scales are an attempt to assign an objective measurement to a subjective feeling. And it gets very…