August 2010 - Broken Clay - The Network of Care

The Original Racing Wheelchair

Ziggi at Wheelchair Diffusion writes about the original racing wheelchair: At the beginning and for many years racing wheelchairs were nothing more than a street wheelchair modified by athletes who spent as much time with a welding torch and wrench in...

Published Mon, Aug 02 2010 12:23 PM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: exercise/sports, wheelchair use

Infant Returned to Blind Parents

Via Haddayr. I, too, am speechless. When will this sort of thing stop? “I needed help as a new parent, but not as a blind parent,” Johnson said. She recalled the social worker saying: “‘Look, because you guys are blind, I don’t...

Published Sun, Aug 01 2010 5:14 PM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: disability, current events

Body Matters

Check out Wheelchair Dancer’s Body Matters and WHEELIE cATHOLIC’s Comments on “Body Matters”. Both are marvelous posts, the first more theoretical, the second more concrete, both awareness-raising and full of “oh, yes!”...

Published Tue, Aug 17 2010 8:34 AM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: disability

Advocacy or Appeasement?

Let’s say there were federal laws about, I don’t know, food safety. And let’s say that instead of having restaurant inspectors, the federal government decided that the best way to enforce the laws about food safety would be to allow...

Published Wed, Aug 25 2010 8:07 AM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: accessibility

More on Frivolous Lawsuits

Bad Cripple’s take on the Frivolous Lawsuit issue: An Image Problem: The ADA and Business Read More...

Published Thu, Aug 26 2010 8:37 AM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: accessibility

Rocks in the Stream

Someone’s been busy in Boulder Creek near the library: I especially like the flat rock stacked vertically, point down: Read More...

Published Tue, Aug 17 2010 3:17 PM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: _uncategorized

On the Street

For years, while waiting to cross a street, I avoided blocking the top of the curbcut because, I don’t know, someone might need it. I now know that ambulatory people abhor a vacuum, and if I don’t position myself squarely in front of it, they...

Published Mon, Aug 16 2010 9:23 AM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: accessibility

Featured on Stumptuous!

STUMP (noun) 1. The part of a tree trunk left protruding from the ground after the tree has fallen or has been felled. 2. Informal: a leg. 3. A short, thickset person. 4. A place or an occasion used for political or campaign oratory: candidates out on...

Published Sun, Aug 01 2010 9:07 AM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: exercise/sports

Solidarity versus Solitude

Yesterday I rode in the Venus de Miles. It’s a women’s bike ride in its third year here in Boulder County. Riders can chose from 3 distances: 33 miles, 51 miles or 67 miles (a metric century). Since the longest ride I’d ever done when...

Published Mon, Aug 30 2010 8:59 AM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: exercise/sports

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The Original Racing Wheelchair

Infant Returned to Blind Parents

Body Matters

Advocacy or Appeasement?

More on Frivolous Lawsuits

Rocks in the Stream

On the Street

Featured on Stumptuous!

Solidarity versus Solitude