When I sign on to this blog, I have three chances to get the logon right before I am blocked out of it. I have never made more than one wrong attempt and believe me when I tell you that the first unsuccessful effort puts such fear in me that…
Month: November 2017
The Smirkin’s Still Workin’
Today is the anniversary of the day I met my husband. His sister set us up. I remember it like was yesterday, the way he walked into my apartment. I now share with you the heartwarming celebration of the occasion that occurred this morning: Me: Blue and white Oxford. Hands on…
Big Not-A-Mistake. Big. Huge.”
I needed to get new clothes for an upcoming trip and also for the mere fact that I have not shopped in five years, other than picking up a shirt here, a pair of yoga pants there. If you looked at my current wardrobe you would think I was a…
A Mistaken Signdentity
During my walk I came upon this sign. And to me it looked like an actual person. Imagine my surprise when I got close enough to see that his head wasn’t attached to his body.
I Approve This Post
It’s Municipal Election Day and as I returned home from voting I thought about all the people working at the polls and everyone taking time from their busy lives to make their choices known and to help shape the community in which they live. And I wondered: How many of…
Chicken No More
Why did the legally blind woman cross the busy road for the first time in five years? Because she can.
He Eggs Me On. Everyday.
Piper has been through a lot in his eleven years: hatched in Florida, lived with a family for a few years, was surrendered by them to the rescue in New York, then moved with it to New Jersey, where I found him. And yet from the first morning after we brought…
Plucking Eurphoric
I had an amazing day yesterday which I will share as soon as I have a little time to process it. I did something I haven’t done in five years, the first time since my vision loss and without my mom who was often with me in thSee endeavors when…
Last But The Opposite Of Least
This hair dryer no longer works. It stopped one day as I was getting ready for an appointment so I ran to where I keep my travel supplies and luggage and grabbed my old travel hair dryer, purchased during those long ago times when a hotel didn’t supply one for…