Having just landed in Salt Lake City earlier that morning, my husband and I had covered a lot of ground in the past six hours, making multiple stops in the city before heading west to the Bonneville Salt Flats (click here). Located close to the Nevada border, we found Route…
Arriving at the 2026 All-Star Game in Philadelphia (click here), everyone in attendance found a rolled card in their cup holder. Provided by Mastercard* as a way for the stadium to honor those affected by cancer, the one side explained what the placard was for, the other proclaimed, “I STAND…
Living with a disability requires a lot of adapting in order to do even the most ordinary things. For instance, I use my sense of touch now for things that I used to be able to see, like filling a glass with a liquid or setting the oven temperature dial…
While researching my 5x great-grandfather Colonel Augustine Willett, my husband discovered a copy of a Muster Return dated 1776. A Muster Return is an official military status report used to track personnel. It details which members are present, absent, transferred or discharged. Colonel Bull’s Return of the 1st Battalion Pennsylvania…
Leaving the Bonneville Salt Flats (click here), my husband decided to stop at the nearby Wendover Travel Center in Tooele, Utah. He had seen online that this store sells Salt Flats t-shirts and he wanted to check them out. While I waited in the car, I received a text message from…
Some people believe that the universe is always providing us with signs, all we have to do is pay attention. If you subscribe to this theory, you no doubt weigh the validity of those signals that are ambiguous. And then there are the messages that are indisputable, so blatant that…
I always wanted to get my motorcycle license and thought I had plenty of time to at least take a course to see if I really liked it. I spoke about it so often that my toddler nephew, now 20 years old, used to tell me, “Motorcycles are dangererous, Auntie…
For the past year, I have been working with Major League Baseball on some solutions to make the in-the-park experience more accessible – and ENJOYABLE – for visually impaired fans. I promise to share more on that in a future story. My contacts at MLB generously offered me two tickets…
It’s hard to leave Piper when I travel, even though I have a handful of exemplary sitters who take great care of him. No matter where I may be, the photos they send me of my little green guy each day help with the missing him. My husband and I…
