Hopefully, better than mine.

Recently I described myself as motherless in an exercise where I listed who I was before my vision loss and who I am now. My mom died a few months before I woke up without my sight. Thinking about that later, I realized that did a huge disservice to the…

I took this picture of the Freedom Tower through the sunroof of our car as we drove by it recently. Terrorist attacks. Hurricanes. We stand up and we stand tall. Life can be extremely to the nth degree difficult, something, I believe, we aren’t really taught growing up or if…

When I use my iPad, I am unable to see if is right side up and so I feel the screen border to find the Home button. As I did this very thing today, with The Weather Channel and its Irma coverage on the TV, my thoughts were of everyone’s…

While driving to dinner, my friend and I saw a billboard (well, SHE saw it) announcing a new Escape Room in the area. You know, where you are locked in a room with hidden clues that will lead you to the key to escape? When she told me about it,…

I am jealous of you. There, I said it. If you have your full sight I am envious. Sure, that is perfectly understandable. Of course I want that for myself. And yet it is not a good feeling, especially when it originates from people I love and who have always…

. . . and a lesson I need to learn.

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There are cardiologists who tend to our medical needs but who do you entrust your heart to when it is 90 grams of feathers or 45 pounds of fur? It is a huge concern and if you don’t know someone willing and able who you would trust with this life,…

My husband just turned 50 while we were on vacation in Boston. We took our nephew, who is 12, to tour and see a game at Fenway. When the Birthday Boy woke up on his special day, I gave him a gift I had packed for him: He is always…