SubscribeUpdated today with the letter that I actually sent this am
An open letter to the
Minister for Transport
the Honourable Mr David Campbell MP
GPO Box 5341
SYDNEY NSW 2001
Dear Sir,
I’m told I tell a great story whether fiction or fact. My education and experiences over many years has reinforced that telling stories is a good way to understand [...]
The View from Down Here
The musings of an Aussie seeing the world from waist high.... from a wheelchair
Category: Disability Woes
An open letter — rant, long — updated
oh Mamma Mia!
I’ve been thinking about the National Companion Card program since going to the theatre with a friend where the topic came up more than once, first in the booking process and after the show by a well-meaning mother and daughter duo.
Following up from this, I thought now was a good time to discuss it.
Even to [...]
In the Carnival again
Whilst assessing my statistics the other day, I noticed that after nominating myself one month to the Down Under Feminist Carnival I find I have once again been nominated for this. I’m thrilled. Thanks Mynxii.
pavement wars part 1
It is perhaps unwise to get me started on this ….. but well you can skip this entry!
From this post on both scooters and pedestrians and their respective relationships with those in wheelchairs as well as retail space design.
It may be that there are incompetent scooter-users driving into market stalls and store aisles. Or it [...]
the great dichotomy
Feminist Scribbler makes some very familiar points in her post about managing the often dichotomous reactions to disability from those closest to us.
I will expand on this post in the next few days.
now published
It was a strange day earlier this week when one evening PB teased me with the dreaded “surprise”.
Buried in the caboose was a copy of the October issue of Link magazine. Published five times a year Link is “Australia’s leading national cross-disability magazine.” Lo and behold an edited version of the organic fruit blog post [...]
The wheels of the bus
The last few weeks have been quite remarkable. Remarkable in a good way I hasten to add. My experiences with mass transit have worked. Consistently. Seamlessly. They just have.
The ramps of the rear loading buses have largely worked; and, on the few occasions when they haven’t worked first time the drivers have tried a few [...]
A thank you
I just want to say thank you to everyone for their interest in my small contribution to this discussion about Dancing with the Stars. It will be interesting to see the impact that these discussion on and off air will have on the show.
I want to make one thing clear. It wasn’t the low scores [...]
Update on media behaving badly
As a follow up from yesterday’s post comes this outlining some of the fall out from “Dancing with the Stars”; including comment from Gerrard and his wife, Heather.
It includes some advice from Gerrard for the judges:
“I know I make a lot of mistakes as a dancer, and I’m happy for Todd and the judges to [...]