My writing has taken a back seat over the last 6months or so. Firstly, due to major challenges in my family and personal life, but also professionally. It’s taken me quite a while to be able to articulate why. One of the frustrations experienced was questioning my role in the sector. Did I want to …
Tag: Accessibility
Arts and Immersive Technologies – Will It Erase The Dwarf Perspective?
Artists and Immersive Technologies March 2020 seems such a long time ago, yet some days, a blink of an eye ago. There was talk of COVID-19, yet is seemed a continent or two away. Within the next two weeks, the country would go into lockdown. Before we retreated to our homes, I had the privilege …
Social Distancing, Shopping and Dwarfism
When the lockdown measures were announced because of COVID-19, one of my instant worries as a Dwarf person was with food shopping. Ordinarily, shopping as a Dwarf person is a challenge. Mix social distancing measures, shopping and Dwarfism together and you have a nightmare. Why? In ordinary times shopping is one of the many challenges …
Skiing with the little ones
Unfortunately, I lost the early posts when my web hosts changed. Below is what I have been able to retrieve from web.archive.org. — With some attempt at some exercise in 2009 I decided to try out skiing. Not of the snow kind, but of the dry-slope ski kind. I was very excited about this level …
I’m feeling left out…
Unfortunately, I lost the early posts when my web hosts changed. Below is what I have been able to retrieve from web.archive.org. — It’s that time of year when everyone see the time as a new start and make lots of resolutions about how they are going to tackle the year ahead. The main new …
Those pesky sliding doors!
Every restricted growth person will know what I’m on about here. Today I went on a Sunday shopping trip (shudder at the mass crowds thought) to one of the local out-of-town retail parks to buy my beau their Christmas present (no I haven’t told them what it is!). My attempt at getting out first thing …