I had put the tea kettle on the other day to make iced tea, then sat down to read a bit using my Merlin CCTV. After a few minutes, I felt Piper on my foot. He had walked across the floor from where he had been playing with his toys, and climbed…

My husband and I have been married for 23 years. We have had what I hesitate to say (but here I go) is the normal amount of ups and downs. Most recently, in the past three years, we have gone through, and managed to survive, my sudden blindness, the illness…

Today’s blog post was to be a continuation of A Love Story, but I’m not feeling a lot of love for a certain little birdie, aka Bitey McBitestein.The picture shows the bite as a tiny crescent mark, but it really hurts! That spot on my finger was bit a lot…

My father-in-law passed away suddenly last November. He was an avid fisherman. Today, my mother-in-law held a garage sale at her house and she had a lot of dad’s fishing gear for sale. A potential customer said to my husband, in a casual way, “Someone is giving up fishing”. My…

My closest friends are always so considerate of me and my visual challenges when we are out and about. In planning an upcoming day trip, one friend suggested some things we could do, but wanted to be sure I only did what I was comfortable doing. My reply to her…

“Can’t a guy enjoy his morning coffee on his side porch without being photographed?”

A great friend of mine is leaving today for vacation. She texted me last night, before bed, and she said, “I am very unprepared for tomorrow.” I replied, “Are we ever prepared for tomorrow?”. Obviously she was referring to packing, but it struck a more philosophical chord. After the passing…

  Well that and the fact that he’s a bird.

Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly in You’ve Got Mail: ” . . . and missing my mother so much I almost couldn’t breathe.”