Built in 1856, the Ulysses S. Grant House is located on Wood Street in Burlington, New Jersey. General Grant’s wife, Julia, and their four children lived here during the final year of the Civil War. It is thought that President Abraham Lincoln invited General and Mrs. Grant to join him…
My husband and I clean Piper’s mansion (we never call it a cage) every Sunday morning. One week, before we got that started, Mister Rain and I were doing a few other things on our To Do lists. My husband was outside, Piper was screaming at the top of his…
No trip of mine and my husband’s would be considered a complete success without some element of sports. And so, on our final day of our week in California, before our last supper and the return of our rental car in preparation for an early flight back to Pennsylvania from…
My husband likes to say he went to an Ivy League school because one time when he and his housemates were playing beer bocce ball at college, he got poison ivy. #sisterrain #alittlesightalotofheart #legallyblindwriter #writer #writersofinstagram #humaninterest #life #lifeisgood #lifestories #marriage #imarriedanivyleaguer
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…
