This is my 500th blog post. So much has happened since I began this blog in 2010 to document searching for a job during difficult economic times. Now my wish is to tell my story, in the hopes that this new journey I’m on will touch readers but and also…
The phone call with the bird rescue was scheduled, via email, for the afternoon of August 2nd, 2012, which meant I had better call my husband and let him know what I was up to. If I was seriously interested in adopting a bird, I needed to get him on…
When I write my blog, I sometimes pause before I type “visually challenged” or “visually impaired”. I have also heard “visually different”. I don’t know what the correct terminology is, so I use the phrase that’s in my heart at that moment. This morning, I have identified two new terms.I…
Like quite a few people that I know, I am fighting a summer cold, thought by many to be the worst cold of them all. I had plans with my mom-in-law to meet my husband for lunch and then she and I would do a little shopping. I had texted…
I have lost a pair of tweezers. I am a maniac about organization and everything having its own place where it should be returned to after use. It has served me well never moreso than since the change in my vision. As mindful as I am about things being where…
The next day after first seeing Piper’s posting on petfinder.com, I decided to email the woman who ran the rescue where Piper was living. I told her in my email about our household and our experience in caring for our beloved cockatiel, Cato, from three months old until he passed away…
On the evening of August 1, 2012, I went onto petfinder.com for the first time. I had avoided the site until I was ready to find a bird to love because looking before it was time would have been torture. My husband tells me I can’t save them all, but, oh, how…
Growing up, I had fish and a hamster. I found out in my teen years that I am allergic to cats and dogs. When I met my husband, his family had a parakeet. This was my first experience with the avian species and I was intrigued. After we were married…
I have written about my husband and my friends but there is a very special someone in my life that you haven’t been introduced to yet. We met three years ago, three months before my vision loss. We were just getting to know each other when I became sick and…
