by Gloria | Jul 30, 2023 | Accessibility, living well
I rarely drive. My life is structured so that I generally don’t need to. BUT Like so many others, I still have a driver’s license (with the designation that I use an assistive device) and I’ve wanted to keep it as long as I could....
by Gloria | Feb 3, 2023 | Accessibility, Adventures, Travel, Your Life, Your World
Last year, we had the opportunity to take (another) trip of a lifetime. Since becoming wheelchair dependent I have been able to continue traveling with the help of careful planning, a supportive family and having good “assistive...
by Gloria | Apr 14, 2021 | Accessibility, Adventures, advocacy, community, Travel, Your Town, Your World
We spoke In our most recent segment about companies who care and proactively identify ways to ensure that individuals with disabilities have appropriate access to their products and services. In the same way, there are cities that care and cities that seemingly...
by Gloria | Mar 23, 2021 | Accessibility, Transit, Transportation, Travel, Your Town, Your World
Several of our past blogs, podcasts and YouTube videos have focused on “getting around” and how important accessible transit can be for those of us who may no longer drive. My local transit agency, PSTA (Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority) has been very...
by Gloria | Feb 3, 2021 | Accessibility, living well, Your Life
I have tried to write this blog for a very long time and have kept getting pulled in so many directions about what might be helpful to someone seeing or hearing it. The starting idea was write about “How do we know when to start using a wheelchair”....
by Gloria | Oct 1, 2019 | Accessibility, Adventures, Travel, Your World
Traveling to Estonia has so many dimensions for me that it’s hard to bring them all together in one blog or one podcast. But I’m going to cover an overview here Let me start with some background. When Russia occupied Estonia, in the 1940s, my parents left their...