And so, I kinda don’t know how we got here, the eve of a new year, new decade, a turned page. My word of the year was ‘shenanigans’, and we lived up to it, although maybe not in the way I set out when I declared the word. I’ll share our recent family road trip, but today I wanted to revisit Gin & Lemonade’s Top 10 Posts of 2019. Some notes: I wrote 45 posts in 2019, and 88 in…
Well, my husband. Hi. I’ve had to spend some time this month writing about the physical side of my disability. I usually don’t focus on what I can’t do, and I usually don’t care. But I feel like I’ve been justifying my life and the help I need and now I’m actually exhausted. Maybe that’s because I wake up and feel I haven’t slept. Maybe that’s because I couldn’t get out of bed this morning. No, literally. There was my…
Sometimes I ask you guys what you’d like to read more about around here. And sometimes you tell me. A frequent request is more about my every day life as a wheelchair-user. Hi. I can do that. And so, during my recent assessment for a new wheelchair I figured out that I’ve had my current chair for going on 14 years. I thought it was 16, but we all know Math isn’t my thing. Anyway, that’s a long time. Too…
I take a lot of notes throughout the day, for stuff I want to write later. If you’ve seen me tapping on my phone, I’m not being rude. I’m writing. My family gets that about me. It’s fine. Sometimes, I see something that triggers a memory, and I gotta connect the two time-zones before the thrill is gone. That’s what happened on a recent family road trip. My kid saw a toy she said was for me, and I was…
You guys, time is weird. I miss a lot of major news stories. They happen overnight, and I’m sleeping. Or trying to. This morning in the midst of getting Isla ready for school, I’m scrolling through Facebook. I see the same story a few times, with different commentaries. I told you time is weird. A teacher has gone viral for carrying a wheelchair-using student on his back during a field trip. Oh, boy. We’ve got the inspiration porn out there…
