How Much Better Can It Get?
I gave up going to one of our public pools a good long time ago (a year?) because it’s really hard to get a shower there—the one shower with a bench has a shower head that leaks water where the…
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Life with a Disability
Disaster Planning and Evacuation
Dave Hingsburger’s article “Leaving ‘the gathering place’” brings up, again, the issue of disaster planning and evacuation for people with disabilities. I’ve written about this before (here, here, here, here , here, and here, as well as about my one…
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Progress, Year 5
It’s now been five years since I started lifting weights. I recorded my one year progress numbers, and this seems like a good time to write down where I am now: Aug 08 Aug 09 Aug 13 DB bench…
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We All Look Alike
I guess life must be pretty calm (read: boring), because all I have these days are gym stories. Toward the end of my workout the other day, a woman who sees me there most every week comes up to me,…
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Wouldn’t Want to be Passed by a Wheelchair
I go to the gym to lift weights twice a week. My gym is not a fancy expensive health club with espresso machines and Jacuzzis and lots of Spandex; it’s also not a black iron gym filled with big men,…
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Disability Blogs—My Feed List
Once upon a time, blogs had blogrolls. If you had a blog, you would include a list of blogs you thought would be interesting to your readers in a sidebar on your page. After a while, if you had a…
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