You Might Have Low Vision IF…(guest post by Lori Linna)
BAM! If there’s one thing Joy and I LOVE to do, it’s LAUGH. Sometimes we need reminders not to take ourselves too seriously, and that’s why we love this post by Lori Linna! Wow, what an honor it is...
View ArticleThank You Notes
If there’s one thing our mom taught us, it’s to write thank you notes. When we were kids, we absolutely could NOT play with our new toys until those thank you notes were sealed and dropped into the...
View ArticleFriendship & Yet Another Airport Tale
My friends have always played an important part in my journey through life. In college, time with girlfriends often involved dressing up in black pants paired with a flirty top to explore Seattle’s...
View ArticleMore Thank You Notes
There’s something deeply satisfying about completing a stack of thank you notes. So I can’t help but continue to write more. Hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them!...
View ArticleTraveling Thank You Notes
June was a month filled with travel for me. As I maneuvered my way around bustling airports and unfamiliar hotels, my marshmallow-tipped white cane leading the way, I encountered the joys and...
View ArticleThe Invention of Benjamina: A True Story of How I Outwit the Cable Company
photo description: A woman’s face (Joy!) is morphed with a man’s beard and hairline (Ben!). If you cannot visually see this photo, consider yourself fortunate, as it is fairly disturbing! I was...
View ArticleBlind Survival Skills in a Bustling Holiday Kitchen: Just Keep Tossing the Salad
I come from a large extended family. I am one of 4 children and my mom is the oldest of 9, so warm bodies have never been sparse on the holidays, even after half the fam moved to the Northwest. And my...
View Article4 Life Lessons Learned from 4 Decades of Living with Sight Loss
In honor of our 40th birthdays, we’ve come up with 4 lessons we’ve learned over our 40 years of growing and living with sight loss. Cheers to 40! Community is essential. We live in a society in which...
View ArticleThe Vanishing Tea Bag and Other Musings from a Typical Morning With Low Vision
(Note: Fans of the movie, “Inside Out”, I have a fun little story for you today! As you may know, the movie is based on “Internal Family Systems” a therapy model that invites you to go inward and...
View ArticleDwell
For much of the summer, my family and I have been without a dwelling. This is not to say we haven’t had homes. We have made a home wherever we have landed, and each place has taught us something. In...
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