A Thicker Lens now has its very own Twitter account that you can follow. @athickerlens You will get links to stories as soon as I publish them from the new website. www.athickerlens.x10.mx. In time this wordpress blog will be deleted in favour of the new website. There’s more space and…
I received this interesting comment on one of my previous stories a few days ago. *** The Sustainabilitist November 22, 2014 at 8:08 pm “We hope you’re doing well. By the way, myopia doesn’t happen magically – it’s the result of a combination of prescription abuse and prolonged close work…
One night I was having dinner with some dear friends of mine. It was a great ham dinner. One for the ages really. My friends, who we’ll call Gordon and Ethel had done a fantastic job preparing it for us. Several more of our friends were there. The plan was…
It may seem odd for a person who is legally blind, and not allowed to drive, to have anything to do with the Department of Motor Vehicles, but I did indeed have to make an appointment there one time. I was in need of a some government issued identification, and…
The following anecdote is the same sort of situation that happens every time I get new glasses, so it could describe any one of those incidents. However, for the sake of easier memory, I attempt to describe for you the most recent time this happened. I had gone through the…
It was a Friday night, some friends of mine were actually all free at the same time. So we decided to meet up and have a games night. Board games were something we all loved and it had been a while since we could all get together to play one.…
In the dying days of summer, here is a story that will take you back to the heat of it. One summer, I worked at a summer camp. It was a blast. I got paid to hang out with kids and play guitar all day. As with all good camp…
You will notice that a lot of my University stories that were actually interesting involved me sitting around with a group of friends in one of our dorm rooms. This one starts out in pretty much the same way. Dilbert, who you will remember from “Full Moon” (yes we still…
I should tell you right up front that I am not a violent person by nature and generally do not condone such behavior from others. …but sometimes things just happen unintentionally. That doesn’t make them any more OK though. Perhaps I should get into the story and you’ll get what…
Ah, University. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. This story reflects one of the not so great times of this Dickensian sentiment as you will see in a moment. I was hanging out with several of my friends in one of our dorm rooms. …