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Home Sweet Home – A Bit at a Time
When many people buy their first home, they add their personal touch soon after moving in, making it feel truly their own. Other than having my Dad replace the thick carpet with parquet flooring when...
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A Secret Trick to Making Wheelchair Accessible Washrooms Usable
Sometimes it is the smallest detail that renders an accessible situation usable or not. A few weeks ago, Darrell and I trekked to a nearby recreation centre to pick up a library book on hold. After...
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Things That Make Me Go Hmm…or When Accessibility Bylaws and Common Sense...
Today being another glorious summer day, Darrell and I did our favourite road trip in reverse for a change. Taking the Skytrain into downtown Vancouver to Waterfront Station. We enjoyed the...
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Teachers, Don’t Take Away the Kid’s Voice!
The day after being told by Texas Department of Assistive & Rehabilitative Services that then 3-year old Caleigh would need to wait until starting school for a communication device, her mother...
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Steve Jobs, Thank You for Contributing to My indePendence
With the rest of the technologically innovative world, I am saddened by the passing, today, of Steve Jobs due to pancreatic cancer. Damn cancer. I have written many posts on how the iPad changed my...
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When Universal Forces Converge…Roll with It!
The universal forces are pulling me towards ISAAC 2012 – the 15th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication – to be held in Pittsburgh,...
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7 Lessons Learned from a Year’s Travelling
Preparing for my sixth trip – the fifth across the border – in slightly more than a year has felt too easy, too routine. What am I missing? Based on experience, my travelling preparation includes:...
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Sharing My 3 Favourite Blogs for Your Reading Pleasure
After sharing my 7 lessons learned from traveling, I discovered another one I need to learn before my next conference: how to protect myself against wicked air-conditioning? The Los Angeles Convention...
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I’ll Take My Coffee in Liquid Form, Please
Recently I discovered a quite acceptable alternative to my favourite beverage, an iced mocha: chocolate-covered coffee beans! Popping a few of those yummies in my mouth was way easier than going out...
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Finding an Accessible Dentist Requires Persistence and Many Questions
A quick update on my dental dilemma…finding a suitable dentist involves dealing with three accessibility requirements: Physical access: Can I get to the dentist office, preferably without spending...
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Valuable Communication Lesson Learned While Sitting in the Dental Chair
Yesterday was my first appointment with the new dentist. Being a beautiful day, we decided to wheel the approximate 20 blocks, each way. We will be hibernating soon enough. There was a little "not...
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Amazon Kindle Increases Opportunities for Self-Published Autobiography
I am loving how the Amazon Kindle ebook reader is opening opportunities for those of us who have self-published. In addition to being available on Amazon.com, I am excited to announce that my...
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Continuing a Christmas Tradition
No matter how lean the year had been, Mom always found four cans of soup and four packages of Jell-O – “This is a meal for a family in need,” she would say – for us four kids to give to the Christmas...
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A Big Thank You
Dear readers, friends and family, Thank you for your generous support. Because of you, 120 people will enjoy a Christmas dinner at the Union Gospel Mission. Your generosity has warmed my heart and...
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Changes are Brewing for a Healthy and Balanced 2012
2011 was amazing! I had record year for travelling: Honolulu, Austin and San Diego with an unscheduled quick sleepover in Phoenix, Mississauga, Portland and Los Angeles. My travel agent even...
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Enough of Others’ Success Strategies! 2012 is the Year for Mine, Based on...
Since choosing this self-employed, solopreneur route – or, more accurately, having the decision, more or less, made for me – I have spent much time reading, observing and listening to how other...
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Behind the Scenes of a Tweetchat with the Left Thumb Blogger
A tweetchat – a chat held on Twitter; typically with a guest host sharing an expertise with a specific group indicated by a hashtag (#). By the very nature of Twitter, anyone interested can...
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Amazon Kindle: Still Believing Great Opportunity Exists for Self-Published...
Last month Amazon announced Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Select – "a new option dedicated to KDP authors and publishers worldwide, featuring a fund of $500,000 in December 2011 and at least $6...
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Amazon Kindle Sales Ranking Takes Off
BREAKING TRIVIAL NEWS…in the past couple of hours, the Amazon sales ranking for my autobiography I’ll Do It Myself shot up from #67,557 in the Kindle Store – after being at about #797,998 for weeks –...
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Why are There No Cautions Before Smacking Face First into Invisible Walls?
Have you ever smacked face first into an invisible wall, landing on your butt and asking yourself, “Huh? Where did that come from?” Last week while working with my business advisor, one assignment...
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