Sometimes I cheer people up. Not because I try to, but because sometimes people will compare their own stresses to what they assume are mine and will be drawn to ‘count their blessings’. I suppose I should live and let live, but I am drawn to comment…
(I find this type of post hard to write, [...]
Filed under: musings, social on December 5th, 2009 | 12 Comments »
(Great Wolf Lodge – Owen, Angus, M and T)
When Owen was younger, my biggest wish for him was to have friends. I created inclusive play environments, sent him to programs that could seamlessly accept him and his support workers and spoke positively to other children about how Owen was really just like them underneath. I [...]
Filed under: social on September 10th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
(My poor little blog. Best water it before it curls up and dies altogether.)
A happy post for a change: Owen was at summer camp for the past two weeks at a joyful little place called Adventure Valley. AV is not specifically a camp for children with disabilities; it’s a private, non-religious [...]
Filed under: family, social on July 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
Owen came home from the hospital almost 3 weeks ago, after a 5 week stay. Following are photos of his homecoming with Angus.
Filed under: family, social on May 2nd, 2008 | No Comments »
In my desire to establish a measurable, goal-oriented communication plan, I get a little caught up in structure. In methodology. In creating a reproducible, consistent set of tools. I fall into my own trap of intellectualizing and go so deep I completely lose sight of how to bring it to Owen in [...]
Filed under: social on February 28th, 2008 | No Comments »
Following is the speech/presentation I wrote and delivered for the Children’s Treatment Network – a new virtual therapy center for children with disabilities for York Region (the region north of Toronto). It is ‘virtual’ because there is no physical location – therapists are connected and referred by phone, email and web services. The audience was [...]
Filed under: communication - general, essays + speeches, social on February 21st, 2008 | No Comments »