Wheelchair racer’s win raises issue of fairness This is an interesting one. My first impulse is to say that wheelchair cross country is a different sport from able-bodied cross country. Does cross country have the concept of an exhibition competitor? I’m very sports-illiterate, but when my kids were swimming competitively some meets had “no faster [...]
Oct 302003
Oct 302003
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it… Yesterday it was 85 degrees (with scattered wildfires). Today I’m walking through the parking lot in a freezing drizzle, admiring the ice-encased cars, trying not to die by slipping on the slick floor with wet crutch tips. I just love these weather plots.
Oct 282003
Two U.S. car rental firms settle disability probe
Oct 252003
Twenty years back in the United States, and I think I’m cracking. There’s no decent bread to be had anywhere. If it wasn’t for the bread we make ourselves, my kids would think that stuff in the stores and the bakeries was bread. I drove all over Longmont this morning looking for bread – and [...]
Oct 202003
Town threatens to ticket boy for using wheelchair. Updated 21.Oct.03: Lawmakers May Get Involved In Dispute Wheelchair flap sparks outcry, calls for fairness And well done to Patricia, who has posted phone numbers for the town’s City Hall and County Attorney! Updated 22.10.03: Iowa Town OKs Wheelchair on Streets Notice – “If 14-year-old Bryce Wiley [...]
Oct 192003
There was good eating at my house today. I’m feeling very energetic, so in honor of the DVD release of Bend It Like Beckham, I made aloo gobi, dal saag and basmati rice for dinner. In the meantime, Youngest Son whipped up a batch of strawberry-banana jello. At the same time, Eldest Son was making [...]
Oct 192003
Two of the online communities I read frequently are currently embroiled in controversy (must be something in the water). At WheelchairJunkie, it’s inappropriate religious proselytizing. At the braintalk.org MS Forum, it’s the moderators’ attempts to cut down on vast amounts of off-topic posting. Tom Coates’ blog Everything in Moderation is about creative ways to manage [...]
Oct 192003
I’m not getting this at all: Men happy at adult kindergarten while wives shop Husband gets bored while shopping, leaves wife Why are these people shopping together? 1. She doesn’t drive, so she needs him to take her shopping? 2. They’ve never heard that there’s nothing in the marriage vows about being joined at the [...]
Oct 182003
Ok, it’s Saturday. I’m not very good at following instructions. 1. Name five things in your refrigerator. Asparagus, wheat berries, pesto in a tube, salsa, eggs 2. Name five things in your freezer. Homemade lasagne, whole chicken, frozen-gel icepack thingie, peas, coffee beans 3. Name five things under your kitchen sink. 409, Simple Green, some [...]
Oct 162003
Most of you probably don’t have an International Baccalaureate student in your lives (much less two), but trust me, these are really funny, and so true. The funniest one was: It takes you 3 days to get this joke: A: you know what? B: no, introduce me. at which my two IB students stared blankly [...]
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