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Satisfied: The Graveyard on Christmas Part 1
This month’s warm weather, particularly our 65-degree Thanksgiving, brought back memories of Christmas Day last year, an oddly-warm 25th of December. After opening numerous presents that morning, my...
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Large Families and Humble Parenting: The Graveyard on Christmas Part 2
While standing in a cozy, haphazard semi-circle around my grandfather’s grave on Christmas Day last year, my grandmother remarked, “Just think, all these people are here becaues of 2 people.” And...
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St. Lucy Day
Today is St. Lucy Day. Great, you’re thinking. What does that even have to do with anything? Well, there’s a definite link to vision here. My husband and I always wanted to have a daughter named...
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Sometimes I Like Cold Weather
I once tried to use the word “coldth” in a Creative Writing class in high school. My teacher crossed it out in large, red letters and wrote “Not a word!”, which annoyed me because, duh, I know it’s...
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Mother Wisdom
Here is another wise guest post from our mom, Judy. She’s always been such a great example to us of being positive, and it’s amazing to see that she continues to challenge her own thinking, even her...
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Old Habits Dying Hard
Being misunderstood is something we really don’t like as humans, especially if we are of the people-pleasing variety. Beginning in middle school and continuing through college and into adulthood, I...
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Overcoming the Winter Blues
Winter funk first hit me a few weeks ago (no, not that scary, Australian super-virus though the threat of it definitely adds to the funk). Like many Midwesterners with cabin fever, I tried escaping it...
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What Newborns, Airports and Eye Contact All Have In Common
So the doublevision family has grown, as Jenelle welcomed Baby Ben into the family on Easter Day! I just had the privilege of heading out to the northwest to spend a week with my favorite twin and...
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How We Approach People: A Follow-up Conversation
One of the things I love about writing is that it helps me organize and connect the many thoughts, facts, emotions and analysis scurrying around in my head. Basically, it helps me make sense of the...
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Welcoming the Muse: Trying on the Life of an Artist
I’ve always been hesitant to call myself an artist, or even more specifically, a writer. Since I don’t earn a living writing and am not famous, two of our culture’s main measurements for success, I’ve...
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Saying Goodbye to My Grandma Jean the Queen
The call came at 3am Wednesday. Grandma is dying. She probably won’t make it through the night. If you want to say your final goodbye, you should come. The lights at grandma’s house were dim when we...
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Liebster Award
If there’s one thing writers really need, it’s community with other artists. I have this amazing friend, Emily, who shares my love of writing. We belong to the same writer’s group and have fun drinking...
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Lessons in Decompression
I have never been good at letting go. Tense conversations, goodbyes, friendship changes, job transitions, moves….all keep me awake at night far longer than it seems they should. So it wasn’t entirely...
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Fringe Benefits of Blindness
According to many surveys, going blind is something people fear most, right behind cancer. I’ve written plenty of posts related to fear and grief and challenges. But I’ve seldom touched on all the...
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15 Tips for Assisting People With Low Vision
In honor of blindness awareness month this October, I decided to finish this post! I drafted it this summer and then abandoned it because I found it difficult to write. For me, it’s like trying to...
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Take Inspiration: Blind Architect on TED Talks
As we head in to the New Year, I would like to dell out some encouragement to help our readers welcome a strong and hopeful 2014. Blind Architect, Chris Cowney, gave this incredible TED talk on...
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More New Beginnings
My sister and I started Doublevisionblog to reach out to people facing blindness from RP, and to educate their family and friends. In the process, we ended up educating and connecting with our own...
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3 Attributes You Will Quickly Develop as a Blind Mom
A friend recently gave me an article on 4 blind moms featured in “Real Simple” magazine. I was immediately struck by the beauty and strength of each woman, and I was a bit jealous of them for having...
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Twin Powers, Mud Pits and Guide Dogs
Jenelle and I telling our kids bedtime stories on a recent shared vacation My twin sister and I have always had a strong connection despite years of people comparing us to those Sweet Valley High books...
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Meet Roja: Day 1 of Training at GDB
You know how some days can just fly by, to the point where you can’t even figure out what you did? And then there are those other days, those 24-hour periods that are so thick with events that it seems...
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