Hiking Blind

A friend recently asked me how I manage hiking with limited vision.  I have actually been thinking about writing a post about this since I started hiking again. I thought it might be something other people wondered about as well.  How...

What do you See?

Most of the time, I find that people seem reticent to ask about my vision; I don't know if it makes them uncomfortable or if the concept of someone being partially sighted is just too hard to grasp, but the...

Hands off the Wheel

A good friend of mine made a great recommendation regarding my blog; she pointed out that people new to my blog may not know that when I refer to Zelda(or Z), I am taking about my white cane. So, in...

#7 Off-Roading with Zelda and Tamar

I have officially graduated from my lessons at the Braille Institute; Tamar came over to my house today and we have begun our lessons out in the (mostly) sighted world.  Although I have been using Zelda when I am out...

A Week Off

I took a break from O&M this week; my determination has fallen somewhere beneath my feet and I needed to find it.  I am still struggling with feelings of being a fraud, but whenever those thoughts creep up, I can...

#6 Flag Your Cane

I am at the halfway point in my O&M training; 6 weeks with Zelda and I still have such a long way to go. Tamar and I started our lesson today back in the cafeteria, with the model and the...

Step off the Curb

The incident that precipitated my contacting the Braille Institute took place in a grocery store.  In case you didn't read about it in an earlier post, it basically involved me and an enormous pillar; one second I was heading for...

Ode to RP

Wildflower Muse  published my poem, Ode to RP, last year.  WM is a beautiful online magazine and I am proud to have had my work published there. I am reposting this because I feel like it is still and will...

Eyes on Fire

At the end of my last post, I left you in the hallway after leaving ERG hell, and my eyes were useless...... The light in the hallway was incredibly bright, an assault on my dilated pupils, but all I saw...