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Writings about Ataxia, being DeafBlind, family life. The best life can offer!

  • Craig‘s WD #53

    Today’s Word of the Day is… High Dudgeon Oh my this is a good phrase! Intense anger or deep resentment is what this means: A few of my personal experiences of high dudgeon can be…

  • Angry Journal

    Hi folks: You may or may not know that I have ataxia, and I also have a angry ataxia: This would mean I get mad at, well, myself because… All this anger and no where to put it… oh yeah,…

  • New iPad

    So, my 9th generation iPad was slowly succumbing to unfunctionality, so I got a new one! My intervenor said, when I affirmed the deal, there were four colours: Black, Silver, Pink and Yellow. I wanted something different, so I opted…

  • Another TV observation

    Have you noticed, in some shows, bespectacled characters seem to have more than one pair of glasses. It’s as if they own an entire LensCrafters store of different frames! This character went from classic aviators to rounded frames, plus some…

  • TV observations

    Some more interesting TV observations: Have you noticed that in almost every TV show from the Dukes of Hazzard right up to Chicago Fire; characters with well-defined bodies almost always wear tight-fitting shirts, low-necklines, shorts with bulges in the right…

  • Olympics observations

    Hi there, the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics are now finished and Italy is recovering! The Summer games are coming in 2 years… Have you noticed… when an athlete (Olympian or Paralympian) falls during their performance/event (skiing, figure skating, gymnastics,…

  • Word of the day…

    …is out of whack! Seems I trailed off; 52 then 54 and suddenly 57! A gap, a space, then nothing… I’m going to rectify that shortly. But, first I need to move to a different area because the spot I…

  • Shocked!

    Today, I experienced something I have never, well, experienced before. I was, probably, the only DeafBlind students who attended Simon Fraser University during the last five years before Y2K, heck, I don’t even think there was another Deaf student enrolled…

  • Random TV thoughts

    Hi there, in continuing my Random Thoughts about Television dialogue, today I am really gonna hit a giant nail with a cartoonishly big hammer! Have you noticed that… …that there is a whole breadth of missing opportunities in medical, police,…