A Dog’s Eye View
In my 35 years of handling guide dogs, they’ve all seen some pretty bizarre things! This is about how dogs react to seeing or hearing something unusual. The…
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He Saw the Need
In the first weeks and months after I became blind I struggled to find things to do, things that would interest and engage me. Even before my rehab teacher,…
Watch Out For That Tree!
Have you ever wondered about guide dogs and clearance of overhead obstacles? We usually go for a walk in the woods every day. A couple of…
Cross Country Skiing: A Mirror of Life
We’re just back from a ski trip to The Birches Resort on Moosehead Lake. The best – and maybe the worst – skiing was on our first day there. How…
What Climbing A Mountain Taught Me About Teamwork
Recently my husband, Jim, my Seeing Eye dog, Quan, and I climbed a mountain. The experience of this particular climb taught me lessons about teamwork I never learned…
Intelligent Disobedience
Veterans Affairs uses a social media platform called Pulse. The other day I received a notification from Pulse about a book entitled Intelligent Disobedience. The concept of intelligent disobedience is…
A Sound Diary Of Climbing A Mountain
In Autumn, 2012, we took a whirlwind trip from Alabama to Maine and, among other things, climbed Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. What follows is a “sound diary” and…
Maine Garden: 2017
Timing Is Everything After fourteen years in Alabama we’re having to reacclimate ourselves to growing a garden in Maine. By now, in Alabama, our garden would be in and we’d…
American Airlines: One Month Later
How I Felt There are many misconceptions about blindness and blind people with which I’ve been successfully coping for over three decades. I’m often told, “We’re going to <fill in…
An Open Letter To American Airlines, “Just the Facts Ma’am” Version
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
An Open Letter to American Airlines
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 4
Home Again I think we always knew we’d come back to Maine. We’ve lived here twice, once in the Rockland area and, later, in the Ellsworth area. We, both of…
Archive | eqb
A Dog’s Eye View
In my 35 years of handling guide dogs, they’ve all seen some pretty bizarre things! This is about how dogs react to seeing or hearing something unusual. The…
He Saw the Need
In the first weeks and months after I became blind I struggled to find things to do, things that would interest and engage me. Even before my rehab teacher,…
Watch Out For That Tree!
Have you ever wondered about guide dogs and clearance of overhead obstacles? We usually go for a walk in the woods every day. A couple of…
Cross Country Skiing: A Mirror of Life
We’re just back from a ski trip to The Birches Resort on Moosehead Lake. The best – and maybe the worst – skiing was on our first day there. How…
What Climbing A Mountain Taught Me About Teamwork
Recently my husband, Jim, my Seeing Eye dog, Quan, and I climbed a mountain. The experience of this particular climb taught me lessons about teamwork I never learned…
Intelligent Disobedience
Veterans Affairs uses a social media platform called Pulse. The other day I received a notification from Pulse about a book entitled Intelligent Disobedience. The concept of intelligent disobedience is…
A Sound Diary Of Climbing A Mountain
In Autumn, 2012, we took a whirlwind trip from Alabama to Maine and, among other things, climbed Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. What follows is a “sound diary” and…
Maine Garden: 2017
Timing Is Everything After fourteen years in Alabama we’re having to reacclimate ourselves to growing a garden in Maine. By now, in Alabama, our garden would be in and we’d…
American Airlines: One Month Later
How I Felt There are many misconceptions about blindness and blind people with which I’ve been successfully coping for over three decades. I’m often told, “We’re going to <fill in…
An Open Letter To American Airlines, “Just the Facts Ma’am” Version
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
An Open Letter to American Airlines
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 4
Home Again I think we always knew we’d come back to Maine. We’ve lived here twice, once in the Rockland area and, later, in the Ellsworth area. We, both of…
Archive | eqb
A Dog’s Eye View
In my 35 years of handling guide dogs, they’ve all seen some pretty bizarre things! This is about how dogs react to seeing or hearing something unusual. The…
He Saw the Need
In the first weeks and months after I became blind I struggled to find things to do, things that would interest and engage me. Even before my rehab teacher,…
Watch Out For That Tree!
Have you ever wondered about guide dogs and clearance of overhead obstacles? We usually go for a walk in the woods every day. A couple of…
Cross Country Skiing: A Mirror of Life
We’re just back from a ski trip to The Birches Resort on Moosehead Lake. The best – and maybe the worst – skiing was on our first day there. How…
What Climbing A Mountain Taught Me About Teamwork
Recently my husband, Jim, my Seeing Eye dog, Quan, and I climbed a mountain. The experience of this particular climb taught me lessons about teamwork I never learned…
Intelligent Disobedience
Veterans Affairs uses a social media platform called Pulse. The other day I received a notification from Pulse about a book entitled Intelligent Disobedience. The concept of intelligent disobedience is…
A Sound Diary Of Climbing A Mountain
In Autumn, 2012, we took a whirlwind trip from Alabama to Maine and, among other things, climbed Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. What follows is a “sound diary” and…
Maine Garden: 2017
Timing Is Everything After fourteen years in Alabama we’re having to reacclimate ourselves to growing a garden in Maine. By now, in Alabama, our garden would be in and we’d…
American Airlines: One Month Later
How I Felt There are many misconceptions about blindness and blind people with which I’ve been successfully coping for over three decades. I’m often told, “We’re going to <fill in…
An Open Letter To American Airlines, “Just the Facts Ma’am” Version
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
An Open Letter to American Airlines
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 4
Home Again I think we always knew we’d come back to Maine. We’ve lived here twice, once in the Rockland area and, later, in the Ellsworth area. We, both of…
Archive | eqb
A Dog’s Eye View
In my 35 years of handling guide dogs, they’ve all seen some pretty bizarre things! This is about how dogs react to seeing or hearing something unusual. The…
He Saw the Need
In the first weeks and months after I became blind I struggled to find things to do, things that would interest and engage me. Even before my rehab teacher,…
Watch Out For That Tree!
Have you ever wondered about guide dogs and clearance of overhead obstacles? We usually go for a walk in the woods every day. A couple of…
Cross Country Skiing: A Mirror of Life
We’re just back from a ski trip to The Birches Resort on Moosehead Lake. The best – and maybe the worst – skiing was on our first day there. How…
What Climbing A Mountain Taught Me About Teamwork
Recently my husband, Jim, my Seeing Eye dog, Quan, and I climbed a mountain. The experience of this particular climb taught me lessons about teamwork I never learned…
Intelligent Disobedience
Veterans Affairs uses a social media platform called Pulse. The other day I received a notification from Pulse about a book entitled Intelligent Disobedience. The concept of intelligent disobedience is…
A Sound Diary Of Climbing A Mountain
In Autumn, 2012, we took a whirlwind trip from Alabama to Maine and, among other things, climbed Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. What follows is a “sound diary” and…
Maine Garden: 2017
Timing Is Everything After fourteen years in Alabama we’re having to reacclimate ourselves to growing a garden in Maine. By now, in Alabama, our garden would be in and we’d…
American Airlines: One Month Later
How I Felt There are many misconceptions about blindness and blind people with which I’ve been successfully coping for over three decades. I’m often told, “We’re going to <fill in…
An Open Letter To American Airlines, “Just the Facts Ma’am” Version
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
An Open Letter to American Airlines
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 4
Home Again I think we always knew we’d come back to Maine. We’ve lived here twice, once in the Rockland area and, later, in the Ellsworth area. We, both of…
Archive | eqb
A Dog’s Eye View
In my 35 years of handling guide dogs, they’ve all seen some pretty bizarre things! This is about how dogs react to seeing or hearing something unusual. The…
He Saw the Need
In the first weeks and months after I became blind I struggled to find things to do, things that would interest and engage me. Even before my rehab teacher,…
Watch Out For That Tree!
Have you ever wondered about guide dogs and clearance of overhead obstacles? We usually go for a walk in the woods every day. A couple of…
Cross Country Skiing: A Mirror of Life
We’re just back from a ski trip to The Birches Resort on Moosehead Lake. The best – and maybe the worst – skiing was on our first day there. How…
What Climbing A Mountain Taught Me About Teamwork
Recently my husband, Jim, my Seeing Eye dog, Quan, and I climbed a mountain. The experience of this particular climb taught me lessons about teamwork I never learned…
Intelligent Disobedience
Veterans Affairs uses a social media platform called Pulse. The other day I received a notification from Pulse about a book entitled Intelligent Disobedience. The concept of intelligent disobedience is…
A Sound Diary Of Climbing A Mountain
In Autumn, 2012, we took a whirlwind trip from Alabama to Maine and, among other things, climbed Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. What follows is a “sound diary” and…
Maine Garden: 2017
Timing Is Everything After fourteen years in Alabama we’re having to reacclimate ourselves to growing a garden in Maine. By now, in Alabama, our garden would be in and we’d…
American Airlines: One Month Later
How I Felt There are many misconceptions about blindness and blind people with which I’ve been successfully coping for over three decades. I’m often told, “We’re going to <fill in…
An Open Letter To American Airlines, “Just the Facts Ma’am” Version
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
An Open Letter to American Airlines
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 4
Home Again I think we always knew we’d come back to Maine. We’ve lived here twice, once in the Rockland area and, later, in the Ellsworth area. We, both of…
Archive | eqb
A Dog’s Eye View
In my 35 years of handling guide dogs, they’ve all seen some pretty bizarre things! This is about how dogs react to seeing or hearing something unusual. The…
He Saw the Need
In the first weeks and months after I became blind I struggled to find things to do, things that would interest and engage me. Even before my rehab teacher,…
Watch Out For That Tree!
Have you ever wondered about guide dogs and clearance of overhead obstacles? We usually go for a walk in the woods every day. A couple of…
Cross Country Skiing: A Mirror of Life
We’re just back from a ski trip to The Birches Resort on Moosehead Lake. The best – and maybe the worst – skiing was on our first day there. How…
What Climbing A Mountain Taught Me About Teamwork
Recently my husband, Jim, my Seeing Eye dog, Quan, and I climbed a mountain. The experience of this particular climb taught me lessons about teamwork I never learned…
Intelligent Disobedience
Veterans Affairs uses a social media platform called Pulse. The other day I received a notification from Pulse about a book entitled Intelligent Disobedience. The concept of intelligent disobedience is…
A Sound Diary Of Climbing A Mountain
In Autumn, 2012, we took a whirlwind trip from Alabama to Maine and, among other things, climbed Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. What follows is a “sound diary” and…
Maine Garden: 2017
Timing Is Everything After fourteen years in Alabama we’re having to reacclimate ourselves to growing a garden in Maine. By now, in Alabama, our garden would be in and we’d…
American Airlines: One Month Later
How I Felt There are many misconceptions about blindness and blind people with which I’ve been successfully coping for over three decades. I’m often told, “We’re going to <fill in…
An Open Letter To American Airlines, “Just the Facts Ma’am” Version
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
An Open Letter to American Airlines
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 4
Home Again I think we always knew we’d come back to Maine. We’ve lived here twice, once in the Rockland area and, later, in the Ellsworth area. We, both of…
Archive | eqb
A Dog’s Eye View
In my 35 years of handling guide dogs, they’ve all seen some pretty bizarre things! This is about how dogs react to seeing or hearing something unusual. The…
He Saw the Need
In the first weeks and months after I became blind I struggled to find things to do, things that would interest and engage me. Even before my rehab teacher,…
Watch Out For That Tree!
Have you ever wondered about guide dogs and clearance of overhead obstacles? We usually go for a walk in the woods every day. A couple of…
Cross Country Skiing: A Mirror of Life
We’re just back from a ski trip to The Birches Resort on Moosehead Lake. The best – and maybe the worst – skiing was on our first day there. How…
What Climbing A Mountain Taught Me About Teamwork
Recently my husband, Jim, my Seeing Eye dog, Quan, and I climbed a mountain. The experience of this particular climb taught me lessons about teamwork I never learned…
Intelligent Disobedience
Veterans Affairs uses a social media platform called Pulse. The other day I received a notification from Pulse about a book entitled Intelligent Disobedience. The concept of intelligent disobedience is…
A Sound Diary Of Climbing A Mountain
In Autumn, 2012, we took a whirlwind trip from Alabama to Maine and, among other things, climbed Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. What follows is a “sound diary” and…
Maine Garden: 2017
Timing Is Everything After fourteen years in Alabama we’re having to reacclimate ourselves to growing a garden in Maine. By now, in Alabama, our garden would be in and we’d…
American Airlines: One Month Later
How I Felt There are many misconceptions about blindness and blind people with which I’ve been successfully coping for over three decades. I’m often told, “We’re going to <fill in…
An Open Letter To American Airlines, “Just the Facts Ma’am” Version
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
An Open Letter to American Airlines
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 4
Home Again I think we always knew we’d come back to Maine. We’ve lived here twice, once in the Rockland area and, later, in the Ellsworth area. We, both of…
Archive | eqb
A Dog’s Eye View
In my 35 years of handling guide dogs, they’ve all seen some pretty bizarre things! This is about how dogs react to seeing or hearing something unusual. The…
He Saw the Need
In the first weeks and months after I became blind I struggled to find things to do, things that would interest and engage me. Even before my rehab teacher,…
Watch Out For That Tree!
Have you ever wondered about guide dogs and clearance of overhead obstacles? We usually go for a walk in the woods every day. A couple of…
Cross Country Skiing: A Mirror of Life
We’re just back from a ski trip to The Birches Resort on Moosehead Lake. The best – and maybe the worst – skiing was on our first day there. How…
What Climbing A Mountain Taught Me About Teamwork
Recently my husband, Jim, my Seeing Eye dog, Quan, and I climbed a mountain. The experience of this particular climb taught me lessons about teamwork I never learned…
Intelligent Disobedience
Veterans Affairs uses a social media platform called Pulse. The other day I received a notification from Pulse about a book entitled Intelligent Disobedience. The concept of intelligent disobedience is…
A Sound Diary Of Climbing A Mountain
In Autumn, 2012, we took a whirlwind trip from Alabama to Maine and, among other things, climbed Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. What follows is a “sound diary” and…
Maine Garden: 2017
Timing Is Everything After fourteen years in Alabama we’re having to reacclimate ourselves to growing a garden in Maine. By now, in Alabama, our garden would be in and we’d…
American Airlines: One Month Later
How I Felt There are many misconceptions about blindness and blind people with which I’ve been successfully coping for over three decades. I’m often told, “We’re going to <fill in…
An Open Letter To American Airlines, “Just the Facts Ma’am” Version
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
An Open Letter to American Airlines
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 4
Home Again I think we always knew we’d come back to Maine. We’ve lived here twice, once in the Rockland area and, later, in the Ellsworth area. We, both of…
Archive | eqb
A Dog’s Eye View
In my 35 years of handling guide dogs, they’ve all seen some pretty bizarre things! This is about how dogs react to seeing or hearing something unusual. The…
He Saw the Need
In the first weeks and months after I became blind I struggled to find things to do, things that would interest and engage me. Even before my rehab teacher,…
Watch Out For That Tree!
Have you ever wondered about guide dogs and clearance of overhead obstacles? We usually go for a walk in the woods every day. A couple of…
Cross Country Skiing: A Mirror of Life
We’re just back from a ski trip to The Birches Resort on Moosehead Lake. The best – and maybe the worst – skiing was on our first day there. How…
What Climbing A Mountain Taught Me About Teamwork
Recently my husband, Jim, my Seeing Eye dog, Quan, and I climbed a mountain. The experience of this particular climb taught me lessons about teamwork I never learned…
Intelligent Disobedience
Veterans Affairs uses a social media platform called Pulse. The other day I received a notification from Pulse about a book entitled Intelligent Disobedience. The concept of intelligent disobedience is…
A Sound Diary Of Climbing A Mountain
In Autumn, 2012, we took a whirlwind trip from Alabama to Maine and, among other things, climbed Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. What follows is a “sound diary” and…
Maine Garden: 2017
Timing Is Everything After fourteen years in Alabama we’re having to reacclimate ourselves to growing a garden in Maine. By now, in Alabama, our garden would be in and we’d…
American Airlines: One Month Later
How I Felt There are many misconceptions about blindness and blind people with which I’ve been successfully coping for over three decades. I’m often told, “We’re going to <fill in…
An Open Letter To American Airlines, “Just the Facts Ma’am” Version
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
An Open Letter to American Airlines
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 4
Home Again I think we always knew we’d come back to Maine. We’ve lived here twice, once in the Rockland area and, later, in the Ellsworth area. We, both of…
Archive | eqb
A Dog’s Eye View
In my 35 years of handling guide dogs, they’ve all seen some pretty bizarre things! This is about how dogs react to seeing or hearing something unusual. The…
He Saw the Need
In the first weeks and months after I became blind I struggled to find things to do, things that would interest and engage me. Even before my rehab teacher,…
Watch Out For That Tree!
Have you ever wondered about guide dogs and clearance of overhead obstacles? We usually go for a walk in the woods every day. A couple of…
Cross Country Skiing: A Mirror of Life
We’re just back from a ski trip to The Birches Resort on Moosehead Lake. The best – and maybe the worst – skiing was on our first day there. How…
What Climbing A Mountain Taught Me About Teamwork
Recently my husband, Jim, my Seeing Eye dog, Quan, and I climbed a mountain. The experience of this particular climb taught me lessons about teamwork I never learned…
Intelligent Disobedience
Veterans Affairs uses a social media platform called Pulse. The other day I received a notification from Pulse about a book entitled Intelligent Disobedience. The concept of intelligent disobedience is…
A Sound Diary Of Climbing A Mountain
In Autumn, 2012, we took a whirlwind trip from Alabama to Maine and, among other things, climbed Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. What follows is a “sound diary” and…
Maine Garden: 2017
Timing Is Everything After fourteen years in Alabama we’re having to reacclimate ourselves to growing a garden in Maine. By now, in Alabama, our garden would be in and we’d…
American Airlines: One Month Later
How I Felt There are many misconceptions about blindness and blind people with which I’ve been successfully coping for over three decades. I’m often told, “We’re going to <fill in…
An Open Letter To American Airlines, “Just the Facts Ma’am” Version
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
An Open Letter to American Airlines
An Open Letter to American Airlines: I’ve always enjoyed adventure and new experiences and have, thus, flown many times with my five Seeing Eye dogs. Over more than thirty years…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 4
Home Again I think we always knew we’d come back to Maine. We’ve lived here twice, once in the Rockland area and, later, in the Ellsworth area. We, both of…