We often hear the joke from older folks today about how hard they had it in their school days—usually something about walking five miles to school every day through a foot of snow. I didn’t have any snow in South Africa but I did get to struggle half-blind, through my schoolwork. In high school I [...]
October 8-10, 2009, Macon Georgia I performed my dramatic one woman show, Vibrations of Laughter -the story of Annie Sullivan, as a keynote before an appreciative audience of teachers for the blind. They graciously gave me a standing ovation. Actually two standing ovations, One for the Annie Sullivan and the other for the evening’s entertainment [...]
October 11, 2009 We canoe over red and gold fall reflections on a mirror calm lake Under a blue-bonnet sky full of crow calls and little bird twitterings Through olfactory sensations of bacon and maple syrup from the shore I’m ferried Cleopatra-like by my husband Across shiver shadows and sun fingers We glide to old [...]