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Justice is Blind, and Her Dog Just Peed in my Cornflakes (Harbour $17.95)
"My life in the '90s has been a roller-coaster ride,"; says Gordon Kirkland. "In August 1990 I sustained a severe spinal injury in a golfing accident.
"No, I didn't play full-contact golf. While I was on my way to a course, my car was rear-ended by a man looking for a cassette tape on the floor of his car. It really screwed up my handicap.";
Kirkland spent two years in various forms of therapy and frustration. Just after the second anniversary of the accident, in August 1992, when he started to make his first attempts at 'walking' again, a severely hung-over driver rear-ended his car and eliminated what few gains he had made. He was hospitalized again.
"Two years later, in May 1994, I started to believe that even-numbered years in the Nineties were out to get me. I was rear-ended again, this time by a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It was the fastest I had ever seen the police on the scene of an accident. The officer told me it was the fastest he had ever arrived on the scene of an accident.";
Using laughter as a means to cope with a slow and painful recovery, he has published Justice is Blind, and Her Dog Just Peed in my Cornflakes (Harbour $17.95) after a therapist encouraged him to develop his comic viewpoint.
A member of the B.C. paraplegic association, Kirkland now writes his syndicated weekly column, At Large, from his home in Pitt Meadows.His quips run the gamut from video arcades to vasectomies, wheelchairs to weight control, mega stores to marriage. 1-55017-198-4
[BCBW SUMMER 1999]
"No, I didn't play full-contact golf. While I was on my way to a course, my car was rear-ended by a man looking for a cassette tape on the floor of his car. It really screwed up my handicap.";
Kirkland spent two years in various forms of therapy and frustration. Just after the second anniversary of the accident, in August 1992, when he started to make his first attempts at 'walking' again, a severely hung-over driver rear-ended his car and eliminated what few gains he had made. He was hospitalized again.
"Two years later, in May 1994, I started to believe that even-numbered years in the Nineties were out to get me. I was rear-ended again, this time by a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It was the fastest I had ever seen the police on the scene of an accident. The officer told me it was the fastest he had ever arrived on the scene of an accident.";
Using laughter as a means to cope with a slow and painful recovery, he has published Justice is Blind, and Her Dog Just Peed in my Cornflakes (Harbour $17.95) after a therapist encouraged him to develop his comic viewpoint.
A member of the B.C. paraplegic association, Kirkland now writes his syndicated weekly column, At Large, from his home in Pitt Meadows.His quips run the gamut from video arcades to vasectomies, wheelchairs to weight control, mega stores to marriage. 1-55017-198-4
[BCBW SUMMER 1999]
Submitted on July 7, 2003 in By David.
