If anyone is entitled to the morning after, it’s this guy: Hope you celebrated this amazing country’s birthday as hard as he did.  

One BIG Mess

Preparing for a new cell phone has always been a big deal for me. Traumatic even. I rely on my phone in a way that belies my age; I would pit my usage numbers up against a teenager’s any day. Since my vision loss, any new element in my life…

Back in E day . . . my husband and I had Philadelphia Flyers’ season tickets. Back in E day . . . we would make the two-plus hour round trip to the arena a couple times each week to attend games, arriving home after midnight. Back in E day ….

Especially on a Monday, my daily ride on my exercise bike feels like a representation of my life in general: working hard, pedaling through the pain and fatigue, sweating, trying to think about ANYTHING except what is happening, wishing I was somewhere else, pushing myself to beat the competition that…

My husband is very supportive of me. He was when I travelled and worked long hours for my career and has been by my side from the moment I told him I couldn’t see out of my right eye. But today I saw his most demonstrative encouragement, when he stood up…

We all have heard that a vegan lifestyle is a far healthier choice when it comes to what we put in our bodies. Of course, there are multiple arguments to despute this, but I have made an unsolicited discovery: Peeling and chopping vegetables is a cardio workout! While prepping the…

Every few months it works out that I go directly from seeing my therapist to a hair appointment. The therapy I refer to here is someone I talk to about all that has happened over the last three years. She helps me sort through my thoughts and feelings about my…