Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 3
“I Should Have Known” The next morning we loaded into vans and the trainers took us all to the downtown training center. One by one each student had their first…
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Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 2
We’re Getting There It was the first time I had flown without a dog in twenty-five years. Everything was different. First, no one seemed to believe I was really blind…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 1
Thirty Years With Harness In Hand I brought my first dog home to Birmingham from The Seeing Eye in 1985. Her name was Sadie and she was a yellow…
“Can you…” “Do you know…” “How do I…”
And Gavin always had an answer. For almost four years I shared an office with Gavin Wiggins. While neither of us rates a private office this semi-private office was a…
“Never forget.” “Where were you?”
Jim and I lived in Ellsworth, Maine on September 11, 2001. Jim was on the road downeast of Ellsworth. I was in the Ellsworth Career Center. I was talking with…
Say It Out Loud — Suicide
“S U I C I D E” There, your computer didn’t blow up. Your phone didn’t burst into flames. I guess it’s no secret that people are afraid of blindness…
You Can’t Make This “Stuff” Up!
The First Student I’ll call him Robert. Robert had been a high powered attorney in Connecticut until he threw it all in and moved to Maine. He bought quite a…
The End Of An Era
Caring. That’s what Ben Branscomb did. Ben was a second father to me and he wasn’t alone. Lee McGriff Jr. (Daddy Pete) was my other second father. Daddy Pete…
Veterans Affairs Gets It Right!
I began teaching speech-recognition 15 years ago. At that time, I was employed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs as a subject matter expert. Many veterans have multiple…
My “Quandary”
My “Quandary” It’s a boy. It’s a *big* boy. When Joan handed me his leash and told me his name, Quan, I was, what? What does it feel like…
Kismet Crosses The Rainbow Bridge
First post to “Whirlpool” since late November… I’ll never be a “professional” blogger! Here’s the personal side of that post. On November 4 I had my first…
Glad I Didn’t Have to Adjust To Gradual Sight Loss!
Sounds strange, doesn’t it? But it’s true. My blindness was unexpected and I lost all of it at once. And, if I had to do it all over again, I’d…
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Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 3
“I Should Have Known” The next morning we loaded into vans and the trainers took us all to the downtown training center. One by one each student had their first…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 2
We’re Getting There It was the first time I had flown without a dog in twenty-five years. Everything was different. First, no one seemed to believe I was really blind…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 1
Thirty Years With Harness In Hand I brought my first dog home to Birmingham from The Seeing Eye in 1985. Her name was Sadie and she was a yellow…
“Can you…” “Do you know…” “How do I…”
And Gavin always had an answer. For almost four years I shared an office with Gavin Wiggins. While neither of us rates a private office this semi-private office was a…
“Never forget.” “Where were you?”
Jim and I lived in Ellsworth, Maine on September 11, 2001. Jim was on the road downeast of Ellsworth. I was in the Ellsworth Career Center. I was talking with…
Say It Out Loud — Suicide
“S U I C I D E” There, your computer didn’t blow up. Your phone didn’t burst into flames. I guess it’s no secret that people are afraid of blindness…
You Can’t Make This “Stuff” Up!
The First Student I’ll call him Robert. Robert had been a high powered attorney in Connecticut until he threw it all in and moved to Maine. He bought quite a…
The End Of An Era
Caring. That’s what Ben Branscomb did. Ben was a second father to me and he wasn’t alone. Lee McGriff Jr. (Daddy Pete) was my other second father. Daddy Pete…
Veterans Affairs Gets It Right!
I began teaching speech-recognition 15 years ago. At that time, I was employed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs as a subject matter expert. Many veterans have multiple…
My “Quandary”
My “Quandary” It’s a boy. It’s a *big* boy. When Joan handed me his leash and told me his name, Quan, I was, what? What does it feel like…
Kismet Crosses The Rainbow Bridge
First post to “Whirlpool” since late November… I’ll never be a “professional” blogger! Here’s the personal side of that post. On November 4 I had my first…
Glad I Didn’t Have to Adjust To Gradual Sight Loss!
Sounds strange, doesn’t it? But it’s true. My blindness was unexpected and I lost all of it at once. And, if I had to do it all over again, I’d…
Archive | eqb
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 3
“I Should Have Known” The next morning we loaded into vans and the trainers took us all to the downtown training center. One by one each student had their first…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 2
We’re Getting There It was the first time I had flown without a dog in twenty-five years. Everything was different. First, no one seemed to believe I was really blind…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 1
Thirty Years With Harness In Hand I brought my first dog home to Birmingham from The Seeing Eye in 1985. Her name was Sadie and she was a yellow…
“Can you…” “Do you know…” “How do I…”
And Gavin always had an answer. For almost four years I shared an office with Gavin Wiggins. While neither of us rates a private office this semi-private office was a…
“Never forget.” “Where were you?”
Jim and I lived in Ellsworth, Maine on September 11, 2001. Jim was on the road downeast of Ellsworth. I was in the Ellsworth Career Center. I was talking with…
Say It Out Loud — Suicide
“S U I C I D E” There, your computer didn’t blow up. Your phone didn’t burst into flames. I guess it’s no secret that people are afraid of blindness…
You Can’t Make This “Stuff” Up!
The First Student I’ll call him Robert. Robert had been a high powered attorney in Connecticut until he threw it all in and moved to Maine. He bought quite a…
The End Of An Era
Caring. That’s what Ben Branscomb did. Ben was a second father to me and he wasn’t alone. Lee McGriff Jr. (Daddy Pete) was my other second father. Daddy Pete…
Veterans Affairs Gets It Right!
I began teaching speech-recognition 15 years ago. At that time, I was employed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs as a subject matter expert. Many veterans have multiple…
My “Quandary”
My “Quandary” It’s a boy. It’s a *big* boy. When Joan handed me his leash and told me his name, Quan, I was, what? What does it feel like…
Kismet Crosses The Rainbow Bridge
First post to “Whirlpool” since late November… I’ll never be a “professional” blogger! Here’s the personal side of that post. On November 4 I had my first…
Glad I Didn’t Have to Adjust To Gradual Sight Loss!
Sounds strange, doesn’t it? But it’s true. My blindness was unexpected and I lost all of it at once. And, if I had to do it all over again, I’d…
Archive | eqb
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 3
“I Should Have Known” The next morning we loaded into vans and the trainers took us all to the downtown training center. One by one each student had their first…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 2
We’re Getting There It was the first time I had flown without a dog in twenty-five years. Everything was different. First, no one seemed to believe I was really blind…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 1
Thirty Years With Harness In Hand I brought my first dog home to Birmingham from The Seeing Eye in 1985. Her name was Sadie and she was a yellow…
“Can you…” “Do you know…” “How do I…”
And Gavin always had an answer. For almost four years I shared an office with Gavin Wiggins. While neither of us rates a private office this semi-private office was a…
“Never forget.” “Where were you?”
Jim and I lived in Ellsworth, Maine on September 11, 2001. Jim was on the road downeast of Ellsworth. I was in the Ellsworth Career Center. I was talking with…
Say It Out Loud — Suicide
“S U I C I D E” There, your computer didn’t blow up. Your phone didn’t burst into flames. I guess it’s no secret that people are afraid of blindness…
You Can’t Make This “Stuff” Up!
The First Student I’ll call him Robert. Robert had been a high powered attorney in Connecticut until he threw it all in and moved to Maine. He bought quite a…
The End Of An Era
Caring. That’s what Ben Branscomb did. Ben was a second father to me and he wasn’t alone. Lee McGriff Jr. (Daddy Pete) was my other second father. Daddy Pete…
Veterans Affairs Gets It Right!
I began teaching speech-recognition 15 years ago. At that time, I was employed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs as a subject matter expert. Many veterans have multiple…
My “Quandary”
My “Quandary” It’s a boy. It’s a *big* boy. When Joan handed me his leash and told me his name, Quan, I was, what? What does it feel like…
Kismet Crosses The Rainbow Bridge
First post to “Whirlpool” since late November… I’ll never be a “professional” blogger! Here’s the personal side of that post. On November 4 I had my first…
Glad I Didn’t Have to Adjust To Gradual Sight Loss!
Sounds strange, doesn’t it? But it’s true. My blindness was unexpected and I lost all of it at once. And, if I had to do it all over again, I’d…
Archive | eqb
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 3
“I Should Have Known” The next morning we loaded into vans and the trainers took us all to the downtown training center. One by one each student had their first…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 2
We’re Getting There It was the first time I had flown without a dog in twenty-five years. Everything was different. First, no one seemed to believe I was really blind…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 1
Thirty Years With Harness In Hand I brought my first dog home to Birmingham from The Seeing Eye in 1985. Her name was Sadie and she was a yellow…
“Can you…” “Do you know…” “How do I…”
And Gavin always had an answer. For almost four years I shared an office with Gavin Wiggins. While neither of us rates a private office this semi-private office was a…
“Never forget.” “Where were you?”
Jim and I lived in Ellsworth, Maine on September 11, 2001. Jim was on the road downeast of Ellsworth. I was in the Ellsworth Career Center. I was talking with…
Say It Out Loud — Suicide
“S U I C I D E” There, your computer didn’t blow up. Your phone didn’t burst into flames. I guess it’s no secret that people are afraid of blindness…
You Can’t Make This “Stuff” Up!
The First Student I’ll call him Robert. Robert had been a high powered attorney in Connecticut until he threw it all in and moved to Maine. He bought quite a…
The End Of An Era
Caring. That’s what Ben Branscomb did. Ben was a second father to me and he wasn’t alone. Lee McGriff Jr. (Daddy Pete) was my other second father. Daddy Pete…
Veterans Affairs Gets It Right!
I began teaching speech-recognition 15 years ago. At that time, I was employed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs as a subject matter expert. Many veterans have multiple…
My “Quandary”
My “Quandary” It’s a boy. It’s a *big* boy. When Joan handed me his leash and told me his name, Quan, I was, what? What does it feel like…
Kismet Crosses The Rainbow Bridge
First post to “Whirlpool” since late November… I’ll never be a “professional” blogger! Here’s the personal side of that post. On November 4 I had my first…
Glad I Didn’t Have to Adjust To Gradual Sight Loss!
Sounds strange, doesn’t it? But it’s true. My blindness was unexpected and I lost all of it at once. And, if I had to do it all over again, I’d…
Archive | eqb
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 3
“I Should Have Known” The next morning we loaded into vans and the trainers took us all to the downtown training center. One by one each student had their first…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 2
We’re Getting There It was the first time I had flown without a dog in twenty-five years. Everything was different. First, no one seemed to believe I was really blind…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 1
Thirty Years With Harness In Hand I brought my first dog home to Birmingham from The Seeing Eye in 1985. Her name was Sadie and she was a yellow…
“Can you…” “Do you know…” “How do I…”
And Gavin always had an answer. For almost four years I shared an office with Gavin Wiggins. While neither of us rates a private office this semi-private office was a…
“Never forget.” “Where were you?”
Jim and I lived in Ellsworth, Maine on September 11, 2001. Jim was on the road downeast of Ellsworth. I was in the Ellsworth Career Center. I was talking with…
Say It Out Loud — Suicide
“S U I C I D E” There, your computer didn’t blow up. Your phone didn’t burst into flames. I guess it’s no secret that people are afraid of blindness…
You Can’t Make This “Stuff” Up!
The First Student I’ll call him Robert. Robert had been a high powered attorney in Connecticut until he threw it all in and moved to Maine. He bought quite a…
The End Of An Era
Caring. That’s what Ben Branscomb did. Ben was a second father to me and he wasn’t alone. Lee McGriff Jr. (Daddy Pete) was my other second father. Daddy Pete…
Veterans Affairs Gets It Right!
I began teaching speech-recognition 15 years ago. At that time, I was employed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs as a subject matter expert. Many veterans have multiple…
My “Quandary”
My “Quandary” It’s a boy. It’s a *big* boy. When Joan handed me his leash and told me his name, Quan, I was, what? What does it feel like…
Kismet Crosses The Rainbow Bridge
First post to “Whirlpool” since late November… I’ll never be a “professional” blogger! Here’s the personal side of that post. On November 4 I had my first…
Glad I Didn’t Have to Adjust To Gradual Sight Loss!
Sounds strange, doesn’t it? But it’s true. My blindness was unexpected and I lost all of it at once. And, if I had to do it all over again, I’d…
Archive | eqb
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 3
“I Should Have Known” The next morning we loaded into vans and the trainers took us all to the downtown training center. One by one each student had their first…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 2
We’re Getting There It was the first time I had flown without a dog in twenty-five years. Everything was different. First, no one seemed to believe I was really blind…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 1
Thirty Years With Harness In Hand I brought my first dog home to Birmingham from The Seeing Eye in 1985. Her name was Sadie and she was a yellow…
“Can you…” “Do you know…” “How do I…”
And Gavin always had an answer. For almost four years I shared an office with Gavin Wiggins. While neither of us rates a private office this semi-private office was a…
“Never forget.” “Where were you?”
Jim and I lived in Ellsworth, Maine on September 11, 2001. Jim was on the road downeast of Ellsworth. I was in the Ellsworth Career Center. I was talking with…
Say It Out Loud — Suicide
“S U I C I D E” There, your computer didn’t blow up. Your phone didn’t burst into flames. I guess it’s no secret that people are afraid of blindness…
You Can’t Make This “Stuff” Up!
The First Student I’ll call him Robert. Robert had been a high powered attorney in Connecticut until he threw it all in and moved to Maine. He bought quite a…
The End Of An Era
Caring. That’s what Ben Branscomb did. Ben was a second father to me and he wasn’t alone. Lee McGriff Jr. (Daddy Pete) was my other second father. Daddy Pete…
Veterans Affairs Gets It Right!
I began teaching speech-recognition 15 years ago. At that time, I was employed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs as a subject matter expert. Many veterans have multiple…
My “Quandary”
My “Quandary” It’s a boy. It’s a *big* boy. When Joan handed me his leash and told me his name, Quan, I was, what? What does it feel like…
Kismet Crosses The Rainbow Bridge
First post to “Whirlpool” since late November… I’ll never be a “professional” blogger! Here’s the personal side of that post. On November 4 I had my first…
Glad I Didn’t Have to Adjust To Gradual Sight Loss!
Sounds strange, doesn’t it? But it’s true. My blindness was unexpected and I lost all of it at once. And, if I had to do it all over again, I’d…
Archive | eqb
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 3
“I Should Have Known” The next morning we loaded into vans and the trainers took us all to the downtown training center. One by one each student had their first…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 2
We’re Getting There It was the first time I had flown without a dog in twenty-five years. Everything was different. First, no one seemed to believe I was really blind…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 1
Thirty Years With Harness In Hand I brought my first dog home to Birmingham from The Seeing Eye in 1985. Her name was Sadie and she was a yellow…
“Can you…” “Do you know…” “How do I…”
And Gavin always had an answer. For almost four years I shared an office with Gavin Wiggins. While neither of us rates a private office this semi-private office was a…
“Never forget.” “Where were you?”
Jim and I lived in Ellsworth, Maine on September 11, 2001. Jim was on the road downeast of Ellsworth. I was in the Ellsworth Career Center. I was talking with…
Say It Out Loud — Suicide
“S U I C I D E” There, your computer didn’t blow up. Your phone didn’t burst into flames. I guess it’s no secret that people are afraid of blindness…
You Can’t Make This “Stuff” Up!
The First Student I’ll call him Robert. Robert had been a high powered attorney in Connecticut until he threw it all in and moved to Maine. He bought quite a…
The End Of An Era
Caring. That’s what Ben Branscomb did. Ben was a second father to me and he wasn’t alone. Lee McGriff Jr. (Daddy Pete) was my other second father. Daddy Pete…
Veterans Affairs Gets It Right!
I began teaching speech-recognition 15 years ago. At that time, I was employed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs as a subject matter expert. Many veterans have multiple…
My “Quandary”
My “Quandary” It’s a boy. It’s a *big* boy. When Joan handed me his leash and told me his name, Quan, I was, what? What does it feel like…
Kismet Crosses The Rainbow Bridge
First post to “Whirlpool” since late November… I’ll never be a “professional” blogger! Here’s the personal side of that post. On November 4 I had my first…
Glad I Didn’t Have to Adjust To Gradual Sight Loss!
Sounds strange, doesn’t it? But it’s true. My blindness was unexpected and I lost all of it at once. And, if I had to do it all over again, I’d…
Archive | eqb
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 3
“I Should Have Known” The next morning we loaded into vans and the trainers took us all to the downtown training center. One by one each student had their first…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 2
We’re Getting There It was the first time I had flown without a dog in twenty-five years. Everything was different. First, no one seemed to believe I was really blind…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 1
Thirty Years With Harness In Hand I brought my first dog home to Birmingham from The Seeing Eye in 1985. Her name was Sadie and she was a yellow…
“Can you…” “Do you know…” “How do I…”
And Gavin always had an answer. For almost four years I shared an office with Gavin Wiggins. While neither of us rates a private office this semi-private office was a…
“Never forget.” “Where were you?”
Jim and I lived in Ellsworth, Maine on September 11, 2001. Jim was on the road downeast of Ellsworth. I was in the Ellsworth Career Center. I was talking with…
Say It Out Loud — Suicide
“S U I C I D E” There, your computer didn’t blow up. Your phone didn’t burst into flames. I guess it’s no secret that people are afraid of blindness…
You Can’t Make This “Stuff” Up!
The First Student I’ll call him Robert. Robert had been a high powered attorney in Connecticut until he threw it all in and moved to Maine. He bought quite a…
The End Of An Era
Caring. That’s what Ben Branscomb did. Ben was a second father to me and he wasn’t alone. Lee McGriff Jr. (Daddy Pete) was my other second father. Daddy Pete…
Veterans Affairs Gets It Right!
I began teaching speech-recognition 15 years ago. At that time, I was employed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs as a subject matter expert. Many veterans have multiple…
My “Quandary”
My “Quandary” It’s a boy. It’s a *big* boy. When Joan handed me his leash and told me his name, Quan, I was, what? What does it feel like…
Kismet Crosses The Rainbow Bridge
First post to “Whirlpool” since late November… I’ll never be a “professional” blogger! Here’s the personal side of that post. On November 4 I had my first…
Glad I Didn’t Have to Adjust To Gradual Sight Loss!
Sounds strange, doesn’t it? But it’s true. My blindness was unexpected and I lost all of it at once. And, if I had to do it all over again, I’d…
Archive | eqb
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 3
“I Should Have Known” The next morning we loaded into vans and the trainers took us all to the downtown training center. One by one each student had their first…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 2
We’re Getting There It was the first time I had flown without a dog in twenty-five years. Everything was different. First, no one seemed to believe I was really blind…
Our Sixtieth Year On This Good Earth, Part 1
Thirty Years With Harness In Hand I brought my first dog home to Birmingham from The Seeing Eye in 1985. Her name was Sadie and she was a yellow…
“Can you…” “Do you know…” “How do I…”
And Gavin always had an answer. For almost four years I shared an office with Gavin Wiggins. While neither of us rates a private office this semi-private office was a…
“Never forget.” “Where were you?”
Jim and I lived in Ellsworth, Maine on September 11, 2001. Jim was on the road downeast of Ellsworth. I was in the Ellsworth Career Center. I was talking with…
Say It Out Loud — Suicide
“S U I C I D E” There, your computer didn’t blow up. Your phone didn’t burst into flames. I guess it’s no secret that people are afraid of blindness…
You Can’t Make This “Stuff” Up!
The First Student I’ll call him Robert. Robert had been a high powered attorney in Connecticut until he threw it all in and moved to Maine. He bought quite a…
The End Of An Era
Caring. That’s what Ben Branscomb did. Ben was a second father to me and he wasn’t alone. Lee McGriff Jr. (Daddy Pete) was my other second father. Daddy Pete…
Veterans Affairs Gets It Right!
I began teaching speech-recognition 15 years ago. At that time, I was employed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs as a subject matter expert. Many veterans have multiple…
My “Quandary”
My “Quandary” It’s a boy. It’s a *big* boy. When Joan handed me his leash and told me his name, Quan, I was, what? What does it feel like…
Kismet Crosses The Rainbow Bridge
First post to “Whirlpool” since late November… I’ll never be a “professional” blogger! Here’s the personal side of that post. On November 4 I had my first…
Glad I Didn’t Have to Adjust To Gradual Sight Loss!
Sounds strange, doesn’t it? But it’s true. My blindness was unexpected and I lost all of it at once. And, if I had to do it all over again, I’d…