Jo’s Blog

As promised in my last post, here are the remaining F-Words: Fun Friends Future FUN Children are born looking for fun. Even before they have toys, they know how to play: we have pictures of babies in the womb, swooping, diving, happily sucking [...]

Following on from my last post about the International Classification of Functioning, Health and Disability, today let’s consider the F-Words. The F-Words are a fun way to think about the ICF for children. Developed by our friends at the [...]

Did you know that disabled people are the largest minority population in the world? Disabled people live in every country and are every gender and every race. They subscribe to every religion and hold every political persuasion. Everybody knows [...]

I’ve been living with my daughter, her husband and their baby for most of the pandemic. Watching Cathleen care for little Uma Joy has been one of the most amazing experiences of my life. I’ve seen good mothers before. Cathleen is in [...]

It has been two and a half years since Moy Moy died. Since then, I have almost completely stopped writing. Every time I think of starting again, I get through one or two paragraphs before realizing I don’t have anything to say. I [...]

I was the first person in the United States to be arrested and jailed for protesting abortion. My pro-life credentials are unimpeachable: I come from a strong Catholic family, I practiced natural family planning and my husband and I adopted a [...]

Walking in Chicago’s Hyde Park early this week (#Lockdown in full swing, but the university emptied of students and the neighborhood so sparsely populated walking was still allowed), I spotted a sign on a neighbour’s front lawn: [...]