Ageing is one of life’s great universal experiences. None of us are getting out of it alive, and yet most people are still slightly offended when their knees start making noises without prior consent. For those of us who live life as permanent wheelchair users following spinal cord injury, ageing arrives with a slightly […]
Growing Older… With Wheels and a Sense of Humour Read More »
There are dates that slip past unnoticed, quietly folded into calendars and routines. And then there are dates that refuse to soften with time — dates that sit heavily in the body, the memory, and the lives of everyone connected to them. The 13th of December is one of those dates for me.
December 13: Not a Celebration, but a Marker of Everything That Changed Read More »
It happened again.In a shop, minding our business — until a glance, a look, a sigh, or worse, a comment: “Aren’t you going to help your mom?”As if my daughter were failing some sort of moral test by… letting me be? (In this case, tapping a bank card on a card machine!!!) Let me be
Stop Judging My Supporters for Respecting Me Read More »
Let me just start by saying: I’m not a natural daredevil.I’m the person who triple-checks if the stove is off before leaving the house. I like plans. I like safety nets. I like knowing where the exits are. But somewhere along the way, I have come to realize — playing it safe all the time
So, About Throwing Caution to the Wind… Read More »
There’s a strange comfort in hindsight, isn’t there? It’s like watching an old home video of yourself doing something utterly ridiculous—maybe dancing on a table, falling for someone who was absolutely, positively not it, or quitting a job on a whim because it “just didn’t feel right” (even though your bank account very much disagreed).
The Beauty of Bad Decisions: A Love Letter to My Past Self Read More »
