Broken Clay

Restaurant Accessibility

There are two good recent articles in the Washington Post about restaurant accessibility. In the first, food critic Tom Sietsema pledges to start including accessibility information in his reviews: Never mind what’s on the menu. A number of readers have...

Published Sun, Jun 23 2019 12:44 PM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: Life with a Disability

NYTimes Disability Series

New Mobility magazine’s article The New York Times Disability Series Gives Disabled Writers A Place To Shine gives a great overview of the New York Times series of disability essays. “The one thing most people do know about being disabled... Read...

Published Mon, Feb 18 2019 11:45 AM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: Life with a Disability

The Joy of Running

It’s a little sad that your average suburban dog (or at least my average suburban dog) doesn’t have a lot of opportunities to really run. It’s taken us a couple of years of practice and finding the right equipment, but... Read more Read...

Published Wed, Nov 29 2017 9:25 AM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: exercise/sports, Life with a Disability

Ikea, Disability, and 3D Printers

Oh, I like this! Ikea is making furniture better for people with disabilities — with the help of 3D printers The team reviewed Ikea’s inventory and pinpointed more than 130 pieces of furniture and household items that are already suited... Read...

Published Fri, Mar 15 2019 4:14 PM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: accessibility, Life with a Disability

Meeting Old Friends

I had the pleasure and privilege this weekend of meeting (in person) two Bay area disability bloggers whom I have known (virtually) for a long time: Scott Rains and Wheelchair Dancer. Scott is the wildly prolific and multi-lingual author of the Rolling...

Published Wed, Apr 21 2010 1:03 PM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: blogging

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

Cycling the Dordogne 2011: Hotels

The ExperiencePlus staff did a superb job of ensuring that all our hotels were accessible on our trip to France. There were three hotels: Brive-la-Gaillarde In the first town, Brive-la-Gaillarde (Brive the Brave!), the group normally stays at La Truffe...

Published Wed, Jun 15 2011 11:03 AM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: disability, travel

2010 Dallas White Rock Half Marathon

December 5th I did my first half marathon (13.1 miles). It was in Dallas – I signed up for this race because I didn’t think I could be ready for a half much earlier, because we could drive to Dallas, and because I hoped (fondly, and wrongly...

Published Sun, Dec 12 2010 9:33 PM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: exercise/sports, disability

Dunedin (the first time)

We started our New Zealand trip in Dunedin, where we are so lucky to have friends! Dunedin is a university town surrounding beautiful Otago Harbour. Geologically, it’s centered on the remnants of a volcano crater and is surrounded by hills.... Read...

Published Mon, Jan 15 2018 12:56 PM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: Trip Reports

Digital Music in Rehearsal

The iPad is working well in rehearsal! I brought all of my paper music with me for 3 rehearsals in a row, but have stopped doing that. The first rehearsal I discovered that for one piece, I only had the... Read more Read More...

Published Fri, Sep 14 2018 4:39 PM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: Tech

Digital Sheet Music Resources

A grab bag of stuff that I’m finding on using a tablet for sheet music. The King’s Singers: The iPad Project Elisa Koehler: Sheet Music on the iPad Pro Technology for the Classical Singer Going Digital for Musicians Technology, Music,... Read...

Published Sat, Nov 17 2018 2:41 PM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: Tech

Disability Blogs—My Feed List

Once upon a time, blogs had blogrolls. If you had a blog, you would include a list of blogs you thought would be interesting to your readers in a sidebar on her page. After a while, if you had a lot of blogs to keep track of, you learned about feed readers...

Published Sat, Mar 30 2013 11:09 AM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: disability, blogging

Wheelchair Track & Field: High School

Via The 19th Floor, an article about wheelchair track and field at Minnesota high schools: Braun, a junior at Irondale, is one of six athletes statewide competing in the first track and field wheelchair division ever. He joins fellow pioneers Stacy Bates...

Published Thu, Apr 21 2011 11:43 AM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: exercise/sports, disability

Have walker, will do pilgrimage

In May, Chekoala of … …. Wobbly teetering blogging, with walker, walked 110km on El Camino de Santiago. On the way, she enlightens us about the inefficiency of walker design, about being offered and accepting help, and about celebrity. I’m...

Published Wed, Jun 23 2010 10:26 AM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: disability

Seattle Center Rep Parking

Steven J Patrick provides two excellent posts on the proposed changes in accessible parking at The Seattle Center: We Hold This Crap to be Self-Evident and The Seattle Center/Seattle Rep Parking Grab: Proving That Crap DOES Flow UPhill… Patrick...

Published Sat, Sep 12 2009 12:08 PM by brokenclay.org/journal

Filed under: accessibility

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