January 2010 - Broken Clay - The Network of Care

Nordic Sit-Skiing

This weekend I went cross-country sit-skiing for the first time! My friend Sherry, who is a volunteer instructor for the National Sports Center for the Disabled took me to Devil’s Thumb Ranch, near Winter Park. We were met by another NSCD volunteer...

Published Sun, Jan 31 2010 6:45 PM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: exercise/sports

CommentLuv

I saw the CommentLuv plugin on FWD/Forward and found it intriguing – if you leave a comment, it parses your URL and looks for your last post, and prints out the first phrase. I followed a number of CommentLuv links and found interesting new people...

Published Tue, Jan 19 2010 4:38 PM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: blogging

Commencement and Accessibility – the Cheese Stands Alone

Because it is, believe it or not, time to start thinking about hotel rooms and plane tickets for college graduation, I’ve been looking into how various universities handle commencement seating for guests with disabilities. (Interestingly, while...

Published Mon, Jan 18 2010 11:18 AM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: accessibility

Disabled worshippers struggle to find home in pews

From Forbes: Years after federal law required accommodations for the disabled, separation of church and state means houses of worship remain largely beyond the law’s reach. State laws and denominational measures meant to take up the slack are tricky...

Published Fri, Jan 15 2010 2:30 PM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: accessibility, religion

No Room at the Opera

We went to the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD showing of Der Rosenkavalier on Saturday, and it was the last straw. Never mind able-bodied people sitting in the wheelchair accessible seating; there were at easily double the number of wheelchair and walker...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2010 5:54 PM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: accessibility, music/theatre

People in the Sky

I saw the International Space Station yesterday. I was driving home at about 6 pm. The sky was clear. As I headed west, I saw what I first assumed to be a plane, but it was long and skinny, almost like a lighted dragonfly. It wasn’t moving as fast...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2010 10:41 AM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: aerospace

January 2010 - Broken Clay

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