Because I cannot ride the stationary bike everyday mentally, I purchased a portable DVD player for watching workout videos. I can put the player on the floor or dresser, and get it close to my eyes and see it well enough to follow along, whether I am doing floor work…
Date: July 4, 2015 Time: 8:30 a.m. Location: 30 miles from Philadelphia 18 miles from Valley Forge The Scene: Two hundred little league players, three hundred spectators, at five fields within a seven-field complex. Hats over hearts. All eyes on the flag. The Only Sound: Our National Anthem HAPPY BIRTHDAY…
My husband and I spent the day with our 9-year-old nephew. It was a beautiful summer day and the boys spent some time at the batting cages and then we all played a round of miniature golf. I had not played mini golf in ten years and although I had…
I was recently at an event with a mix of family, friends and strangers, where people came and went throughout the day. At one point, a very close friend arrived unbeknownst to me, and was talking to someone else, about five feet from me. When we both looked at each…
Riding the stationary bike between breakfast with a dear, wonderful friend and lunch with another dear, wonderful friend is like a sandwich on the freshest, most delicious bread but with tongue in the middle.
My friends will text me and ask what I’ve got on my agenda for the day, and several times a week, my reply will be “odds and ends”. Quite often, when I ask what they have planned, they will say the same. These odds and these ends can fill a…
Three years ago today my mom passed away.Mom and I were so close that I had assumed I would sense her presence. People tell me she is with me and I nod in response, but on the inside, I am disappointed not to feel her with me. I assumed I…
. . . into a bathtub full of water, and a legally blind woman is there not to see it, does it make a sound? You bet your rubber ducky it does. PROOF Selfie taken at splashdown:
When I first lost my vision, I started saving magazines to read when my sight returned and when it did, I drove myself off into the sunset, as the credits rolled, and the profound song blasted, well, profoundly. The song was, no doubt, Gloria Estefan’s Comung Out Of The Dark, which,…
Before I became visually challenged, I traveled a lot for work. I would be gone from home at lecast one week each month. I was telling someone today how difficult and stressful packing last week for my trip was. And then I said this, “I used to be able to…
