Image description: chipped, blue nail polish on the fingernails, with those fingers curled against the palm of the hand. “You must be reliving your Goth days,” she says with a grin. I look at my chipped, dark-blue fingernails and shrug. “Not...
It has been more than a year since Rhia began losing weight, and we still don’t know why. What triggered weight loss, increased ataxia, decreased stamina, and vision loss? It began so slowly that I didn’t notice how thin she was or that her ataxia had...
my new classroom: a desk, a laptop and a blue background to hide my messy room Welcome to teaching in 2020. The photo above is my new classroom, which is a corner of my bedroom, where I spent 6 hours a day, 5 days a week. In this little corner, I sat at my desk and...
After the UMDF conference last year, I thought about all the people I saw with a vision impairment. How could I help? I submitted a proposal for a workshop addressing the needs of people coping with vision loss and their loved ones. UMDF liked the idea and put me in...
