Built to last: What a dodgy knee taught me in Scotland

Somewhere between Edinburgh Airport and a set of stairs I had no business descending with a suitcase, I had a reckoning with my body.  Specifically, with the part of me who thinks pain is just the price of doing business. Her name is Patty Pusher, and she and I are currently in negotiations.

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Change your perspective, change your life?

“Wetwo?” I said, somewhat indignantly. “Why would anyone put ‘Wet wo’ on their license plate?”

This is a question I posed to my friend Linda during a road trip years ago. We had just come up behind the car in question, and I spent a good twenty kilometers or so silently imagining what this license plate decision said about the owners (and admittedly, making judgements left, right, and centre).

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Getting off the ‘Right’ couch

“Listen here Missy! I’m right, and you’re wrong, and I don’t have to listen to you!”

Picture it. A seven-year-old girl bouncing on a couch, screaming this at me at the top of her lungs. Yup. One of my most vivid memories from years ago when I was working in a group home for kids with severe behavioural challenges.

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