Yesterday I did something radical. I took a day of leave just to go shopping and spend time with a friend. I’ve never done that before. It was awesome and I totally recommend it. My brain took a nice deep breath, but my eyes were still on alert and I...

How do you take what should be a happy time and make it ‘suck’ a little? Take that happiness and have it overshadowed by the need to prove a point. Every human knows the feeling of needing to prove the naysayers wrong. Every person with a disability...

It’s a really hard topic to write about. If you have a physical disability, chances are that you’ve needed help (the unpaid kind) from a friend or family member at some point in you life. Have you ever had those instances of help thrown back at you in...

So your child has just been diagnosed with cerebral palsy? I’m sorry, that sucks. It really does. No, your lives won’t be the same, nor will that of your child. I guess it’s still too early to be able to tell how things will be. It’s okay to mourn what...

We all know that I read a lot of blogs. I read them to see what other bloggers are writing. I also read them to see the types of comments people make about them. Today, while I was blog trawling, I came across the following comment relating to...