As I rolled peanut butter cookie dough into small balls to get ready for baking, I could feel Piper’s eyes on me from the room next to where I sat. It didn’t take long for the squawking to begin, as always, starting out as soft cooing sounds, then slowly ramping…
My husband and I travel to locations and during the times of year that often require coats, hats, gloves and multiple layers, making packing a challenge. I am perpetually attempting not to overpack (click here for Packing Light Just Ain’t Right), but am thwarted by ensuring we have everything we…
“If every diner I go to cannot make bacon crispy when I order EXTRA crispy, how are we ever going to right all the wrongs?” —— Sister Rain #sisterrain #alittlesightalotofheart #legallyblindwriter #humaninterest #life #lifeisgood #lifestories #storytelling
Through my neuro-ophthalmologist at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, I am in a research study looking at mitochondrial biology in diseases of the brain. The actual testing takes place at Jefferson Hospital and occurs every six months. All cells within the body require energy to function normally. Structures within…
Sister Rain’s Note: This is the fifth story about Wreaths Across America. To read the previous posts, click on the following: Wreaths Across America – The Day Wreaths Across America – The Person Wreaths Across America – The Essay Wreaths Across America – The Craft I have previously written…
While I realize that Piper is a bird and does not wear clothes (not for my lack of trying for a Christmas card photo shoot), it still feels a bit uncomfortable to post naked photos of him in the shower. Yet I have done it before (click here) and am…
I used to love looking at the world below during air travel, but since my vision loss, my ability to see what is out the window is limited to the clouds (the white) and the sky (the blue). In the case of the photo above the title of this story,…
Leaving Josephine’s Mercantile in Port Orchard, Washington, my husband stopped to show me a box of Scrabble tiles, all available for $.25, so that you may take home the “R” or the “X” you are missing to complete your set. It was an ingenious idea, one built on the most…
I used to make over 1,000 cookies each year, giving them as holiday gifts. After my vision loss, it became very difficult to tell if the cookies were done in the oven. My husband would be glad to help, but he is color blind and struggles with the same issue,…
Arriving at Washington Crossing Historic Park for the annual reenactment of Washington Crossing the Delaware on Christmas Day as we have done the previous two years (click here for He’s No Chicken But He Crossed The River To Get To The Other Side), my husband immediately noticed that there were…
