Are you a light-turner-on’er? A light-leaver-on’er? Or are you a light-turner-off’er, the one who goes around the house turning out lights in empty rooms? I am something else (not the first time I have heard this); I am a light-no-turner-on’er. With my visual impairment I have very little light perception….
Lately I have been thinking about US history (if you are a frequent reader of this website, that will not be a surprise), how even if you don’t have an interest in history, it is still a part of you. Everything that happened in the Revolutionary War impacted those of…
Faster than mom and dad. More powerful than a sharp beak. Able to lift tall boxes with a single oomph. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s a bird! #sisterrain #alittlesightalotofheart #piper #birdmom #conure #parrot #bird #conuresofinstagram #parrotsofinstagram #birdsofinstagram #parrotlife #instaparrot #adoptdontshop #ahelpingwingparrotrescue #itssuperpiper
As we drove around the Beverly Hills and Los Angeles area, I told my husband to be on the lookout for the Hollywood Sign. I imagined it to be a North star in a city of stars. Sure enough, when we turned onto one road, there, straight ahead, it was….
“The only thing common about the cold is that it always sends me to my bed for a week.” —- Sister Rain #sisterrain #alittlesightalotofheart #legallyblindwriter #writer #writersofinstagram #humaninterest #life #lifeisgood #lifestories #commoncold
I realize that many of my stories involve me comparing my life now to when I had full sight. I felt it important to clarify that while I do not live in the past nor do I pine for it, the comparison does, unconsciously, happen all the time. Having lived…
For Part 1, click here. For Part 2, click here. As Dan, the tattoo artist at Atomic Lobster and the slip of paper he had given me had explained, my new tattoo beneath the clean dressing began to smear and run. Well, that’s what it looked like. What was really…
Upside down or right side up, Piper is always 100% Piper. Whether he is playing or cuddling, squawking or sitting quietly, in every moment of his life he is authentically Piper. Even though he can still surprise me, I can directly tie any new action back to who he is…
Opening its doors in 1927, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California has been the site of many movie premieres and three Academy Awards ceremonies. Hundreds of celebrity handprints, footprints and autographs are cemented in the concrete of its forecourt. Even a famous landmark such as Grauman’s, however, cannot escape sponsorship,…
Do you know what the item in the picture above the title of this story is? I pride myself on knowing where everything is in my house and this particular trait (or quirk?) has served me well since my vision loss. I can find it not because I can…
