Learning to find joy in the complication
My favorite type of weather is actually the one that causes me some of the most difficulty. As a non-ambulatory wheelchair user, I shouldn’t love snow as much as I do. But being a child born in winter, there’s an almost magical joy that fills me when I hear that it’s going to be cold outside.
Winter poses its issues for me as well, though. It gets slippery, and difficult to manuver my manual chair if it’s snowing or raining. On top of that, I have issues with my knees that flare up in cold weather. I have to find clever ways to get around it or keep my hands warm, and bringing a blanket with me is a near necessity these days– especially when travelling to my parents home state of West Virginia over the Christmas season.
I have yet to write a novel that deals with wintry weather, and it’s not likely to happen in my current series. There, winters are temperate, and they don’t look anywhere near the same as they would in our world. At times I wonder if there could be some interesting complications for my characters in winter, and potentially a chance to explore how weather can affect different special needs.
I’d love to hear what type of weather is your favorite! How do you navigate challenges surrounding it?
