From Crip Chronicles, Aunt Aggie Ruins Christmas, or Dies in the Attempt: After it took nearly ten minutes for Aggie to walk — with human and cane assistance — from the living room to the driveway of a fairly small house, I said to Joan, “for $150 she could get a good transport wheelchair that [...]
Dec 292005
Dec 252005
I was privileged to be able to spend yesterday in the Sierra Nevadas (roughly here), on a sunny, balmy 70 degree day, with four dogs, five horses, my sister and her husband and very dear friends.
Dec 252005
Those antipodean airlines! They just keep coming up with more ways to discriminate: Qantas to restrict disabled flyers
Dec 212005
I wish I had the statistics to refute this sort of thing: By the way, my own local bus route (London route 101 for those knowledgeable) was one of the first adapted, new buses and alterations at all the bus stops, all ceremonially opened by the mayor of the time. In the 10 years since [...]
Dec 202005
20051220-stockings Originally uploaded by Katja Stokley. First try at blogging a flickr photo.
Dec 192005
Very Christmasy around here. Youngest Son went out with his father yesterday to bag a tree; they found a very nice one. It’s half decorated. We’ve been a little confused about stockings; we used to have two fireplaces, but one is now gone and the other has no mantel. I discovered brick clips at Ace [...]
Dec 192005
The F5 key on my laptop has been wiggly for months, and last week it gave up the ghost and fell off. So I did what I had been putting off – I called IBM Customer Service. Imagine my amazement – during the dizzying space of 12 minutes, my call was answered, my vital statistics [...]
Dec 122005
From Jenn X: 1.What is your favorite Christmas carol/song? Today, it’s Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, as sung by the divine Chanticleer. 2.White lights or multicolored? Neither. Candles (hush, I’ve never burned anything down). 3. Do you have a cut tree, live tree or an artificial tree? Cut, but not yet. It can’t go up [...]
Dec 112005
I’m on a little trip back to 1964. I was flipping through a catalog, and saw this blast from the past – we had that deck when I was little. So I ordered one and have been playing with it. Youngest Son was helping me build something and allowed as to how my childhood must [...]
Dec 112005
After successfully losing 40 pounds, I went to the doctor last week and discovered that 10 pounds (I’m lying, it’s 11 pounds) have crept back on. So it’s back on the wagon. Last time I used a Palm app called DietLog to track my eating, which has since morphed into BalanceLog. I bought the new [...]
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