Blindness Issues
Ten Most Read Nuggets Articles of 2015
To be sure you didn’t miss any of the ten most read Nuggets articles of 2015, I’ve listed them below. If you’re anything like me, a title isn’t enough to refresh your memory of articles already read. Included is a brief summary.
Three Joys of Black Friday
Pushing, shoving and angry crowds are a blind person’s nightmare. For this reason, I limit my serious shopping to that one special day each year—Black Friday. I’m not being sarcastic and haven’t taken leave of my senses. I think Black Friday’s been given a bum wrap. So, I decided to share three joys of Black […]
How Can Totally Blind People Read?
Gliding the fingertips of my left hand over a large volume with complicated raised dots, I faced the shattering reality of blindness. I lived in a completely black world. Learning to read braille paralleled the difficulty I had acquiring facility with a new language. Even if I could speed up my snail’s pace reading with […]
Can I Adapt Without Spending Months in a Blind School?
When total blindness entered my life, fear engulfed me. Even if the school rightly boasted the friendliest faculty in the world, the idea of living in an entirely unfamiliar environment–without sight, friends, or family–petrified me. How can I adapt without spending months in a blind school? My brain and other senses functioned normally, so with […]
Find Blind Help Under L
At the age of forty-five, darkness suddenly enveloped my every waking moment. Since I lived and worked in a West African jungle village, assistance in independent living skills couldn’t begin until my return to the States. Had I known to find blind help under L in the phone book, I’d have received assistance nine years […]