Blind. Not Invisible.

A long time ago, I used to be pretty active in Second Life. Second Life, or SL, is an online virtual environment. It’s a lot like World of Warcraft and similar online games, except that there a...

https://blindnotinvisible.wordpress.com/2020/06/15/the-blind-chick-revisits-second-life/

I didn’t manage a blog post last week. I meant to, honest. But my Wednesday looked something like this: Got up. Fed cats. Got MrH off to work. (Actually, kept MrH company while he got himself o...

https://blindnotinvisible.wordpress.com/2020/02/14/keepin-busy/

When I told a childhood friend several years ago that I’d lost my eyesight, she had two questions for me: Had I learned braille, and did I have a guide dog yet? Along with dark glasses and a wh...

https://blindnotinvisible.wordpress.com/2020/01/29/why-i-dont-have-a-guide-dog-yet/

In my younger days, I never thought of myself as the weight-lifting type. We focused on calesthenics in gym class, and the 80s was the decade of aerobics. If I thought of strength training at all...

https://blindnotinvisible.wordpress.com/2020/01/22/pumping-iron/

So, since I can’t think what to blog about today, and since I’ve been working on my creative writing, let me tell you a story. This one isn’t fiction, though. Unfortunately. Once Upon a Tim...

https://blindnotinvisible.wordpress.com/2020/01/16/the-bad-egg/

As I mentioned in my post on resolutions, every year I keep a list of the books I’ve read. I’ve done this since 2006, when someone in the Bookcrossing forums mentioned it and I thought, “Th...

https://blindnotinvisible.wordpress.com/2020/01/08/what-i-read-in-2019-because-you-were-dying-to-know/

Well, another year has begun, and if the list of resolutions isn’t an evergreen post, I don’t know what is. Some folks prefer setting goals to making resolutions, feeling that it gives them t...

https://blindnotinvisible.wordpress.com/2020/01/02/happy-new-year-or-you-say-you-want-a-resolution/

As we move into the last week of 2018, now seems like a good time to contemplate the year just past, and to lay out goals and possibilities for the year to come. What I Haven’t Been Doing: Blog...

https://blindnotinvisible.wordpress.com/2018/12/25/2018-year-in-review/

Many, many years ago, when I was ten or twelve, my sister and I bought ourselves artificial trees at a post-holiday sale. These were not beautiful trees. They were about two feet tall, with sixte...

https://blindnotinvisible.wordpress.com/2018/12/18/the-ugly-tree-a-family-tradition/

If you follow personal finance blogger and author Donna Freedman (and you should, because she’s awesome!) you know that she recently responded to a challenge by posting about 15 things she like...

https://blindnotinvisible.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/20-things-i-like-to-do/