The Cathedral Church of St. John, Albuquerque

Jan 302007
 

Website: http://www.stjohnsabq.org/ Parking: on the street (metered, Albuquerque allows handicapped parking permit holders to park at meters for free) church lot on the northeast corner of property, no permit spaces commercial parking lot across the street to the north, no charge on Sundays Building access: The building is accessible via the northeast entrance; all other [...]

Crip Etiquette

Jan 292007
 

I’m in Albuquerque for a mission operations rehearsal. I’ve got about an hour and a half before I go on duty, so I go to the Starbucks near the base, get myself a latte, and settle down in an armchair to read for a little while. In a bit I look up and see two [...]

Pigs have flown

Jan 162007
 
This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series The Communion of Saints (aka the Saint Andrew Saga)

I went off tonight, back to the inaccessible church (after much renovation), for choir rehearsal. My Beloved said, “You better pee before you go.” I admit, I was skeptical. But children, I am here to tell you that after seven draining, gut-wrenchingly painful years, St Andrew Presbyterian Church of Boulder has a wheelchair accessible restroom. [...]

Pigs hanging around the runway

Jan 162007
 
This entry is part 9 of 10 in the series The Communion of Saints (aka the Saint Andrew Saga)

St Andrew Presbyterian in Boulder still hasn’t managed to have its re-dedication Sunday – it’s been postponed several times. My choir has resumed rehearsing there, so I’m going tonight. Since we’re channeling a Michigan winter, I called to ask if they had moved the handicapped permit spaces, increased the number of spaces, shoveled the curb [...]

Hooray for the Albuquerque Sunport

Jan 102007
 

This is a shout out to whoever runs the Albuquerque Sunport (their cute name for the airport) rental car center shuttle bus services. First, the buses run constantly. I’ve never had to wait for a bus. Second, the entire fleet was recently replaced with kneeling buses with flip out ramps. (I thought the previous vehicles, [...]

Another one bites the dust

Jan 032007
 

Invacare is discontinuing sales of Kuschall chairs in North America: “Kuschall was doing OK, but it wasn’t profitable for us,” said Invacare Vice President Brian Ellacott. “(Medicare) reimbursement is going to be reviewed in 2007, and we know it’s going to go down. So if it wasn’t viable financially currently, the picture could get worse [...]

2006 Recap

Jan 022007
 

First sentence of each month for 2006 (idea shamelessly stolen from amputeehee): January: Thanks to my on-going remission (hooray!), I flew last week with only crutches, no wheelchair, and discovered that this made me a second class crip. February: Disability Bitch is back, with some schoolin’ for cutesy crips: March: After all, it could be [...]

Credits