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Recently I mentioned to several people that when I call a business, I document the time, date and name of the person I speak to. I have done this for so long I don’t remember how or why I started doing it, but when I was just talking about it…

Driving by a local business, my husband saw a sign for an upcoming event. He told me about it when he got home and I commented that I walk by this place a few times a week and, of course, never saw the sign. This was an actual sign but…

Loving books since I was a little girl, new releases are like Christmas morning any time of year. Every month I go online and review the hundreds of new titles that have been published since I checked thirty or so days before. Doing just that today, the number of bound…

Yesterday while in church before a funeral service began, I removed a Bible and opened it, paging through it as if looking for a particular verse. My husband watched me with a quizzical look on his face. I leaned close to him and whispered, “If it’s going to happen anywhere, it’s…

Hopefully, better than mine.

Recently I described myself as motherless in an exercise where I listed who I was before my vision loss and who I am now. My mom died a few months before I woke up without my sight. Thinking about that later, I realized that did a huge disservice to the…

I took this picture of the Freedom Tower through the sunroof of our car as we drove by it recently. Terrorist attacks. Hurricanes. We stand up and we stand tall. Life can be extremely to the nth degree difficult, something, I believe, we aren’t really taught growing up or if…

When I use my iPad, I am unable to see if is right side up and so I feel the screen border to find the Home button. As I did this very thing today, with The Weather Channel and its Irma coverage on the TV, my thoughts were of everyone’s…

While driving to dinner, my friend and I saw a billboard (well, SHE saw it) announcing a new Escape Room in the area. You know, where you are locked in a room with hidden clues that will lead you to the key to escape? When she told me about it,…

I am jealous of you. There, I said it. If you have your full sight I am envious. Sure, that is perfectly understandable. Of course I want that for myself. And yet it is not a good feeling, especially when it originates from people I love and who have always…