Before I moved to Edinburgh for love, I lived and worked and did everything else in Glasgow for five years. About a month after I signed a two year deal on a flat, Neil asked me to move to Edinburgh. After I figured out that this move was A BIG DEAL, I asked him to move to Glasgow. Apart from the music scene and me at the time, there wasn’t much that he liked in my adopted city, so I…
The product links in this post are Amazon affiliate links, I make a small commission if you make a UK or US purchase through them, at no extra cost to you. Read my disclosure here And so, the fam and I have a wedding to go to pretty soon. I never knew I could stress so much over someone else’s wedding. The last wedding Neil and I went to (that wasn’t our wedding) turned out to be five days before Isla…
I started this blog to share my real, regular life as a disabled person. I travelled, I tried to write, I got married, and had a kid. The fact that I’m a wheelchair user makes life interesting, but not undoable. I don’t try to overcome my disability, I prefer to work with it. I don’t want to undo my Cerebral Palsy, a positive outlook won’t change it, and I don’t want to. I am disabled and proud. My frustrations spring…
When Isla started nursery school, I stuck around for a while on her first day. She held my hand for a beat longer than usual, looked at me, and then went to play. From my wheelchair in the corner, I watched her play and tried not to mess with her moment. That day, she did things that made sense to people who were three. Playing alone together with other kids. After a while, a boy not unkindly asks my daughter,…
First, thank you to those of you who have emailed asking about the writing prompt that I was supposed to introduce on the first of the month. This is not a test, but I sometimes forget that people care what I have to say. What I don’t forget is that I should deliver on my promises to you groovy people. In related blogging news, I’ve been hanging out on Twitter more and I answered this thread from Jon Sennett (not…
