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,…
Have you ever tried to lay back in a Jacuzzi or a soaking tub but are unable to do so because your legs are too short to touch the far side of the tub, therefore, you slide right down into the water when you attempt to get comfortable? I love…
As I write about in It May Not Be Hell But Something Has Frozen Over (click here), after fighting the idea, I purchased heated vests for my husband and me. We had endured too many outside events where, despite layers of clothing, we were cold, cold enough to not be…
