As we pulled into the Philadelphia parking garage for some testing at Wills Eye Hospital, the old familiar anxiousness surged through ever fiber of my being. There was no reason for it, the feeling, there would be no results, scary or otherwise, we were on a fact-finding mission. Yet I…
“The best prices on kitchen products can be found in the back of your cabinets. In box, never used, mint condition. Possibly antique or “vintage”. Free. I like to think of it as ‘mebay’”.
Growing up I always spent a week in the summer at my Nana’s in Philadelphia and in 1976 I stayed a few extra weeks to join in the city’s celebration of our nation’s bicentennial. One of the many places we visited was the Franklin Institute, a science museum named after Benjamin…
“Life can slow us down when it thinks we’re moving too fast, forcing us to see things differently. Notice I said slow not stop.” —- Sister Rain
We all have had to put the past behind us in order to move on with a new normal. Seven years since my vision loss, I have realized that even when we stop looking back and focus on the future, what came before is still with us. The distance between then and…
“The clock is either for you or against you.” — an announcer during a football game It’s Monday. Try to catch everything that’s thrown at you. Run like hell. When necessary, take a timeout. Monday Night Football GO HAWKS
“You can hide from the world, but the people who love you will always find you.” — Sister Rain
“The love changes us more than the loss. It’s so very difficult to remember this but so very important that we do. It just may be the key to survival.” — Sister Rain
We have all seen photos of people where there’s a black bar across their eyes to protect their identity. Our eyes show the world who we are. When I just saw one such picture, I had the thought that my eyes have a black bar of sorts across them from…
If I eat a chocolate chip muffin while wearing a Hershey’s KISS costume, does that make me a cannibal?
