Back in the day, when I was young and a little wild, I would drag myself into work on Monday  morning. Copious amounts of coffee were consumed and conversations at the coffee urn were polite,  subdued and quick. It was “too soon” to herald the old, marrieds with my youthful, single escapades….

Today is my sixth day home. I have not been out of the house since Saturday night. My captor:  My vision loss My rescuer:  Me And that, my friends is the meaning of life. 

Why is it so much easier to look back than it is to look forward?

I saw on TV a man who lives in a former commercial airliner in Oregon. As he was giving a tour of his home, all of a sudden I was overcome with an olfactory memory. I was remembering the smell of an airplane: stale air, cold and hard plastic, old…

A man walks into an apartment, dressed in jeans and a blue and white long-sleeved Oxford shirt, hands on hips and says, in his best Joey Tribbiani voice, “How you doing?”.His heart was healthy. I had my full vision. Our grandparents were alive. My mom was alive and would walk me…

I AM NOT WRITING THIS IN CAPS BECAUSE I AM VISUALLY CHALLENGED BUT BECAUSE THIS IS MY WAY OF SHOUTING FROM THE ROOFTOPS!!! OK, I realize that is super annoying. But I ask that you imagine me screaming this to you. I have been having an issue for months with…

Fall-ing back an hour is always an adjustment, not just for us parronts, but our feathered friends, too. Piper gets a snack every day at 6 p.m. The time can vary a bit depending on what’s going on, but believe me, he knows when it’s snack time and has no…

I always feel like I’m getting away with something when I renew a library book. Where else in life can you extend a deadline with no repercussions or buy yourself some time at no cost to you? That’s right, no unmarked bills in a paper bag exchanged hands, there was…

While out running errands yesterday with a friend, I heard myself saying about my husband: “He isn’t going to rehab tonight because he’s working the polls.” My straight-laced, teetotalling husband is not working a 12-step program nor is he collecting dollar bills while wearing 7-inch stilettos. He is taking back…

I have very poor depth perception because of my vision condition which makes curbs and steps a challenge.  I also have difficulty pouring liquids, because I can’t tell when I’m getting close to the top. I’ve overfilled many times. I just got this great little gadget, the Say When Liquid…