It’s Municipal Election Day and as I returned home from voting I thought about all the people working at the polls and everyone taking time from their busy lives to make their choices known and to help shape the community in which they live. And I wondered: How many of…
Why did the legally blind woman cross the busy road for the first time in five years? Because she can.
Piper has been through a lot in his eleven years: hatched in Florida, lived with a family for a few years, was surrendered by them to the rescue in New York, then moved with it to New Jersey, where I found him. And yet from the first morning after we brought…
I had an amazing day yesterday which I will share as soon as I have a little time to process it. I did something I haven’t done in five years, the first time since my vision loss and without my mom who was often with me in thSee endeavors when…
This hair dryer no longer works. It stopped one day as I was getting ready for an appointment so I ran to where I keep my travel supplies and luggage and grabbed my old travel hair dryer, purchased during those long ago times when a hotel didn’t supply one for…
At my hair appointment today, the receptionist came and asked my stylist while she was shampooing me if she had time later today to cut a new customer’s hair who was on the phone. The client’s name was Candy. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
In thinking about sharing my story, I consider myself a typical person. I had a family and friends, a career I loved and hobbies that required eyesight: seeing all parts of this beautiful country, devouring books and driving my car. I am not the inspirational representation we often see, I am…
Parents today often implement chore charts for their children, offering them the opportunity to learn responsibility, pride in their work and the feeling of being a contributing member of the household. My kid is more of an I-make-the-mess-around-here kind of participant in the running of our home but trust me…
Have you ever had a favorite local restaurant change its ownership and name, yet you continue to call it by its original moniker years later? Or have you ever known someone since your school years and two marriages later still think of her by her maiden name? And in my…
A friend was recently telling my husband and me about his trip to Disney with his wife and daughter. He is in his late 40s, a fearful person, afraid of flying, cities and amusement park rides, among other things. We had heard that his family had somehow convinced him to…
