International Day of People with Disabilities
Saturday was the International Day of People with Disabilities. This is a day proclaimed by the UN and this year, the theme was “together for a better world for all:including persons with disabilities in development.” this became particularly amusing (but not in a good way) when you consider everything that’s happened in our fair city…
Disabled? Disposable. Help Save the Hardship Fund
I had a plan for this week. I’ve had that plan for about a year. Because the International Day of People with Disabilities is on December 3 and for the last couple of years, that meant that I go to Variety Village to take part in the City’s celebration of this day. It’s a terrific…
99% Accessible
I’ve written before about how fascinated I am by the Occupy movements in general and Occupy Toronto in particular and I’m about to go on about it again. But this time, it’s about a particular aspect of Occupy Toronto. A few weeks ago, I was wandering around the park checking things out when I saw…
Thoughts on Cold and Stubbornness
It all started when The Boy said something last weekend that challenged me to not wear socks until November. Well, to be honest, I’m not quite sure what he said, but it’s possible it wasn’t a direct challenge. All right, so whatever he said triggered the challenge gland in my brain which then came up…
Occupy Toronto
The Occupy movement has come to Toronto and have settled down in St. James Park, not too far from my nec of the woods. I went by earlier this week to check out this new village I liked the sign at the entrance. Which was surrounded by media vehicles to such a point it was…
Might Need Asbestos Clothing for This One
Yesterday, I read a post by Trisha Torrey over at About.com’s Patient Empowerment area. It was about the possibility of a convicted child rapist named Kenneth Pike being considered for heart transplant. She presented the issues and asked for readers opinions. This is my comment: “One of the reasons I am a monthly support of…
Ironies
This was the plan: on Saturday, September 11, a small church in Florida (very ironically called the Dove World Outreach Center) would commemorate the tragedy of 9/11 by burning copies of the Qur’an. Despite this church only having 50 members, the issue took over the media, as such a hateful act naturally should, people from…
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…
Too Far. Just Too, Too Far
I’d planned to write about something else today, but got majorly sidetracked by a fit of apoplexy. I’m on a couple of email lists and one of the members is an older gentleman, quite conservative, who delights in sending really awful jokes (that are often so awful that they’re very funny) and sometimes, he sends…
Sticking My Nose In
When thinking about my first post after my time off for alleging healing. I had two choices. I could talk about how that healing process has been going, but after almost 2 months and not nearly enough progress, it’s boring me senseless, so I can’t imagine how you’re feeling. Or I could set the cat…
Language Matters
On Monday, Colleen called me on using the term Nazi for something unrelated to the Third Reich and its horrors and rightly so. I should know better. People like me were the first to be gassed by the Nazis back when they were still doing it with exhaust fumes because it was easy to persuade…
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