The Seattle Seahawks drumline, Blue Thunder, is a talented team of musicians who incorporate rock and roll drumming with drum corps style. Established in 2004, they perform at Lumen Field before, during and after Seahawks games. You will hear them before you see them, and that applies to everyone, not…
Let me preface this story by assuring you that I have never nor will I ever use AI to write my stories. EVER. I started this website in 2011, long before most of us could have imagined such a thing as Artificial Intelligence. I write because I love to, and…
When my husband was proofing my story to be published the next day as he does everyday (typos can easily pass by my limited vision), he noticed that the hashtag “legallyblind” actually read “legallybiind.” He immediately told me, causing my stomach to drop. I copy my hashtags over from a…
I have seen the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC many times from a distance but have never actually visited it. Although all of our Founding Fathers were human and endowed with the unalienable right to flaws, the more I learn about the third President of the United States, the more…
My husband and I recently did a big clean of Piper’s mansion, taking all the toys and perches out, washing them, rolling the empty mansion onto the front porch where I scrubbed it down. We do this twice a year in addition to regular weekly cleanings. The first step, Mister…
My husband and I had the great fortune to have attended three Seahawks games this season. In September, we traveled to Pittsburgh where it was so hot I thought I would burst into flames. Early November had us in Washington, DC (the stadium is actually in Landover, Maryland) where I…
For the past three years, my husband and I have rented the same house outside of Seattle on the Puget Sound. The dates of our weeks there have spanned the months of October, November and December and each year, no matter what the calendar says, in the front yard of…
Did you know that those of us who are blind but have some degree of sight (we may be able to perceive light, shapes or shadows) use white canes with red reflective tape at the bottom? The red color close to the ground can be helpful to the user for…
Displayed in the window of the Lincoln Theater in Washington, DC since 2017 (not to be confused with that other theater), is a twice life-size, full-color, hyper-realistic head of President Abraham Lincoln. It was created in 2013 by two-time Academy Award winning makeup artist Kazu (Kazuhiro) Tsuji, and is made…
Piper loves Nutri-Berries*. He holds them one-handed, for long periods of time, in no hurry, savoring every morsel. He has no intention of giving it up. I have tried to playfully pull one of these snacks away from him, but Piper has a surprisingly powerful grip for a little bird,…
